We have access to some old records...from the 30s/40s...trying to decide what to do with them
Do you have a record player that does 78 RPMs? Do you have a lot of spare time?
Back in the late 90’s/early 2000s, I used my nice vinyl player and Soundblaster card to rip a bunch of my ‘classic’ (not available on CD) albums to CD, and eventually to MP3.
I eventually got it down to an hour or so per album, and most of that was just doing other things while side 1 and 2 played. Splitting up the tracks with a .wav editor and saving all the files off took another 10 minutes or so.
(However, these days, I follow the plan of, if the artist is selling a re-mastered CD of one of my favorites, I buy it, because hassle)
Anyway, on that stack of old albums, you might just have some very amazing classics, or a bunch of dreck. We forget that the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s had their share of bad music too. It’s just gotten buried under the carpet as everyone gushed over Glenn Miller, etc.
If you look on YouTube, you can find channels of old, recorded (and preserved) music, and old time radio shows. Perhaps you could donate the old records to one of them, or (no clue) maybe museums are into that sort of thing.
There’s also Ebay. I don’t know if your collection includes things like, oh, Robert Johnson, but if it does, hoo boy $$$.
Good luck!