Now the Internet Archive is digitizing these at-risk records so that new audiences around the world can rediscover the sounds of yesteryear.
Some say that vinyl is the only way to listen to music—and during the 60s and 70s, that was largely true. For decades, LPs were the dominant storage medium for every genre of music, before being supplanted by other formats. Now the Internet Archive is digitizing these at-risk records so that new audiences around the world can rediscover the sounds of yesteryear.