All you old farts (TM) need to get these freaking quarter inch tapes pushed up to some glacier S3 bucket or sum=such bucket before you kick said bucket...
I'm serious. C'mon, don't steal from the future what you actually did in the past to make the present the reality of today!!
Much of this stuff was fairly constrained by the choices of the time, and as such the information generally ages poorly.
Else we end up in a tech situation far in the future where the world looks in the mirror on acid and says "how the fuck did we get here?" - and the tapes provide no answers
Btw, just last weekend I was harvesting 100 year old railroad spikes from a western timber company rail in Sonora because of the context of historical significance - not because I plan to lay a new track...