Musical heritage to die?

As media changes old formats become unplayable. Some brave people have taken it upon themselves to transcribe these old formats for us and publish the results on the web.

These sites with historical data and research (like digital transcriptions of cylinder and 78RPM  records) should not die with their owners. See Roger Wilmut's site http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/index.html

for instance. Is Google or anybody interested in keeping these sites in perpetuity?

BobSmith, time traveller from the last century