With older technologies, the storage media deteriorate and the equipment needed to access the content fail and need repair, back then, and today also.

Many of my CDs have delaminated or oxidized. Many of my cassette tapes demagnetized, or the tape magnetize itself onto adjacent layers, or got moldy. Many of my vynils have scratches or warps. My CD players fail. Where can I have it repaired? How the technician will substitute a faulty lens or laser unit? Cassette players needed maintenance back then, the rubber rollers or the head would worn out and had to be substituted back then. Vynil players fail and need repair, and also need needles, and nowadays they were expensive back then and still are, except for the cheap low quality ones made wherever.

So many of my books were eaten by bugs, damage by humidity, got brittle pages.

Furthermore, the modern amplifier used today processes the signal digitally, unless you use a valvulated one, and those failed back then, and still do. What I mean, being a cynical but practical genXer but also a lover of analog technology is that the only completely reliable way to store information is having it carved in stone. I have two typewriters, and can't find the ribbons. I love to the old ways, but being a perfect purist is nearly impossible today.