In any case, congratulations on your find - enjoy those records! You inherited some Pathe records, too, I'm assuming?
Yes, and some of them are pretty neat...the "demo" record that shipped with the phonograph, for one. Not knowing any better, I played a couple of them with the steel needles that I found in it, but the sound was unsatisfactory (because of the incorrect needle profile, as I later learned) and put them aside in favor of RCA-style records. I trust I did no serious damage to the pathe records, or if I did, that it was redundant, the same having been done by my late lamented ancestor, the former owner.