We have a similar machine to Dave Hanson's - Panasonic - plays and records both VHS and DVD and can convert VHS to DVD as well as being a Freeview receiver for digital TV. I had good intentions of converting all of our VHS tapes to DVD, but not done half of them yet! The main ones I wanted to do were the school productions (you were allowed to video your own kids then!) and other stuff such as amateur dramatic productions I've been in, my parents' golden wedding, etc: not things you can buy off the shelf commercially.
We did have an evening of great laughs the night before my daughter's wedding watching the VHS of her 14-year-old dance class concert - along with several of her friends in the same show - especially guffaws at the wrong moves!
Much the same scenario with the USB turntable - all those vinyl LPs and cassette tapes I was going to convert to CDs - but now they tell me the CDs won't last anyway! And not enough hours in the day to do the job or listen to the results......