Yeah, I have all the photos I digitized on a disc, a thumb drive and a PC hard drive. But once they are digitized, moving them the next big thing medium takes only a few minutes.
Could be, but ya never know what the next “big thing” might be.
Storage media likely will be compatible, but I’m thinking of all the different image-audio-video formats I’ve seen over the years. I’ve had to do my fair share of converting from one format to another!
Growing up in our house we had Edison cylinder records, my brother had to make a cylinder-record player to listen to them since there weren’t many up for sale in the electronic dept at stores, as you might imagine.
But we find ways to keep the important memorables.