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I think the first caches of them were found in sites like Mari in Mesopotamia. The Library of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal was huge, and is a large part of the collection at the British Museum.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/ancient-near-east1/the-ancient-near-east-an-introduction/a/cuneiform

There’s also better access to such collections, which is good, because not surprisingly a number of cuneiform inscriptions are fragments and haven’t been seen by living scholars in the subject, a number that has never been vast, and as we all complain, the educational system in the US is in a long slow downward spiral.

The Cuneiform Digital Library is a research project at the Penn Museum

https://www.penn.museum/research/project.php?pid=16

SunkenCiv in cuneiform:

https://www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.php?fullname=sunkenciv&name=sc&inscribe=inscribe