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The Great 78 Project over at the Internet Archive has been professionally digitizing old 78 RPM records for a while now. These records were all made between 1898 and sometime in the 1950s. Over 20 collections have been selected for digital access and physical preservation with the help of George Blood, L.P. and the Archive of Contemporary Music. So far about 26,000 of the 78s have been added to the Internet Archive. Each disc has about 3 minutes of audio per side. Most of the discs are made from shellac and really quite brittle, perhaps even more brittle than today's digital formats.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by KritonK on Monday August 14 2017, @05:24PM
Actually, there was an old project that involved scanning records (in pieces, then stitching them, as LPs don't fit in a common A4 scanner), then trying to get some sound out of the scan. I don't think the project went anywhere other than a proof of concept, and certainly did not perfectly reproduce the audio.
On the other hand, there are record players that use a laser instead of a needle to reproduce the sound from records. Interesting idea, as this does not damage records, unlike scratching them with a diamond-tipped needle. I have no idea what kind of sound these record players produce, though.