Easy: get a bunch of DVD drives and a ~1 Gbps uplink. 2000 4.7GB single layer DVDs in three working days is about 870Mbps. Upload them as you rip to S3 and then send a pull request!
Can you detail how one easily gets a 1 gigabit uplink installed temporarily in the National Archives?
I've had telcos drop fiber into the middle of fields in the middle of nowhere, so it's probably possible. But it feels like there's a lot of complicated bureaucracy to navigate, and the researcher OP is time-restricted.
No one got the joke. I’m suggesting that the DVD’s should be submitted as an AWS public dataset, because Amazon is the company that digitized them in the first place, and the content is apparently public domain.
If anything is out of your few commands, just save work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.