On the face of it, I would agree. I also agree they should pay the people who take this on. It is a much harder job than many minimum wage people do, and they at least make something for their time. But I think it's possible that part of the reason they are asking for help is not the difficulty of it, but that there might be such a large volume of it that it would take them decades for them to complete it on their own.
The National Archives was established in 1934 to centralize federal recordkeeping. It is likely that the National Archives will be around for at least another 90 years, if not 190 years.
Perhaps colleges will offer students academic degrees in Handwriting Reading, so that they can be hired by the National Archives and other state or local organizatons to read handwritten historical documents.
Given the decline in educational standards, in the future, universities may also offer master and doctoral degrees in addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.