I really need to get a turntable in the shop I have a few hundred records that I have not heard in years. Have to find one that will play with the cover down because of the dust in there. We have one I picked up to convert them to mp3 format but really sucks to use and basically takes up to much memory really not worth doing if you ask me.
That is exactly why I loved the old MiniDisc ....they are like CDs but in a cartridge so they don't get dusty or scratch and take half the space of a CD. They are getting hard to find these days since they stopped making them in 2013. They are all I had as a kid, but they never got too popular in the US because they were expensive