I’ve worked for one of those type of government agencies too.
They were using (and paying $$$ rent for) an IBM mainframe to run a database. I could have replaced the entire thing with a PC running Microsoft Access.
The civil service exam for a job there asked question on how to collate dot matrix printouts. (30 year old technology)
They generated boxes of reports every month. One person’s entire job was to generate these reports, take last months reports and shred them, THEN take them to the incinerator and burn them, and replace them with this months reports.
He did this every month.
No one ever read these reports.
Or, or the reports could of be online save trees.........