I thought I'd share a storage option that's working for me, although I'm not sure how feasible it is for people with huge collections. I'm just glad I can easily access these 78s without being paranoid about damaging them. Hopefully this is useful for someone!

I didn't have enough sleeves for all my 78s, and I was worried about them leaning on each other too much, getting scratched up or broken on hard surfaces, and sliding/rolling around due to standing on edge.

The desk sorter helps solve the leaning problem (plus allows for a little organization), and the shelf liners on the bottom of each slot keep the records from rolling away. I also taped some thin shelf liner strips to the tops of each divided slot to avoid damaging any records if they bang against those hard edges. There's also sturdy packing foam behind everything to keep the records from hitting the back of the wooden cabinet.

This setup feels sturdier than using cardboard boxes or cloth bins, but none of the records are hitting any hard surfaces (aside from the other records they're next to) like they might in a milk crate or a bookshelf. If you have more records than this, you might have to find sturdier dividers than the thin plastic ones I'm using. But hopefully the proof of concept is still helpful.

I've fallen in love with all versions of the song and I need this record.

I want to listen to 78s while on airplane mode. I’ve started downloading tracks from the Great 78 project on Internet Archive, now that it’s back up, searching for “1931 jazz,” or “Duke Ellington,” or whatever. If I like it, I download it to IOS files as VBR MP3, then use ICloud to put it on the free VLC app, since ITunes went away.

Years ago I had freeware I’d use to rip cds, record my 78s from a turntable, and clean them up (needle drop, pops), reduce noise by combining stereo tracks to mono, then burn to CDs or add to iTunes. But Apple seems to have killed ITunes.

Luckily it was free... but still...

This record was badly cracked in shipping but I was able to glue it back together. There is horrendous clicking throughout but it playes!