[bryanthompson]

We had to do this for a bunch of reel-to-reel christmas programs we (people way before my time) made for our station... I just went from the reel-to-reel machine, or from carts, or from turn table, into soundforge and left the room... when it was all finished, I just went in and cropped everything, made them into their own files, exported, and uploaded into the system or burnt them onto cds...

Most everything, unless it's an original recording, has already been professionally converted to digital. If you own an original copy, there's no copyright infringement if you download it from a p2p source, right? You could probably find whatever it is. I've gotten some strange requests for really obscure music 60 years old, and haven't had much problem finding them.