The Digital Heritage Audit
Magnetic tape is decaying. Oral histories are fading. Don't let your family or church archive disappear into the silence of obsolescence.
Audit your archive in 5 minutes
Get the technical triage report for your cassettes, reels, and legacy digital files, plus our 2026 Legacy Transcription Price Guide.
Used by historical societies and congregational archivists across North America.
Stabilization Triage
Identify which media formats are at the highest risk of physical decay (binder shed, vinegar syndrome) and need immediate digitization.
Format Obsolescence Check
Assess the availability of working playback hardware for your media and identify regional labs capable of high-fidelity capture.
Transcription Readiness
Evaluate the acoustic quality of your archive for automated transcription and estimate the human-verification time required for citable accuracy.
Discovery Planning
Map your transcripts to institutional partners (denominational archives, genealogical societies) for long-term preservation and discovery.
Magnetic media is a timed record.
Most cassette tapes from the 1970s and 1980s are reaching the end of their physical lifespan. Every playback risks data loss. Every year of delay increases the noise floor of the eventual digital capture.
- FAN Club extraction from audio sources
- Named-person verification workflows
- Citable metadata standards for archives
- America 250 grant readiness
"The biographical detail inside a typical funeral sermon is often richer than any civil record. Transcribing them is what turns a box of tapes into a searchable family record."
— Heritage Archive Project, 2026
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Free for families and congregational archivists. No credit card required.