Google ‘transfer VCR tapes to DVD’. There will almost certainly be small businesses within driving distance who do that for you - there’ll be a charge, I think I paid eight quid a tape, but it was a good few years ago. We had all our VCR tapes (including our wedding, and my old R&R band playing the Millennium Mega-bash at Scunthorpe Baths Hall) transferred to DVD.

A Blu-ray player should play DVDs OK.