The local university library (UC-Santa Cruz) has the Times on microfiche. The readers have copying capability (provided free by us generous taxpayers) so I scroll through the reels and take pictures of whatever strikes my fancy. Then I transcribe them into Word and add HTML formatting. I have tried scanning but so far I haven't been able to make that work very well.
I got a book of the New York Times front pages during World War II for Christmas a few years ago. It’s fascinating to see how the media covered events as they happened. Often their perspective (AKA conventional wisdom at the time) was much different than we think.