How Radio Archives Are Preserved: A Listener’s Guide (2026)

how radio archives are preserved

Radio archives are preserved by assessing every recording, stabilising fragile carriers such as reel-to-reel tape and shellac discs, digitising the most at-risk material into high-resolution preservation masters, describing it with proper metadata, and storing copies in several separate places under controlled conditions. Rights are then checked before anything is published. The work is a pipeline, … Read more