... you might ask why I want them at all if I don't want to spend time listening to them.

I digitised the majority of my 300-odd LPs. I started nearly 20 years ago.

I eventually installed an old laptop permanently next to the hifi. It ran Audacity and nothing else - no internet so it booted quickly. Any old laptop will do - mine had a 'Windows 95 ready' sticker on it! (And old laptops often have line-in sockets.) When I wanted to listen to some music I would fire it up and record an LP - or decide it wasn't worth recording! When I had half a dozen LPs I transferred the Audacity files to a powerful computer to process them.

Splitting tracks is the most time consuming bit. Get some software to do it. I used an ancient free program called 'Gramofile' - but that's Linux-only. I would only do it visually with Audacity as a last resort. Some LPs are easy to split - e.g. old Trailer, Leader, Transatlantic folk LPs tended to have clear gaps. Other are hard - live performances, tracks that have silences in the middle between parts of different volume, and ones where one track runs into the next. But I could usually split most of the tracks automatically and only have to use Audacity on the failures.

Adding ID3 tags can also be a faff. I automated a lot of that: where there was a later CD release I could pull tracknames from online sources - it used to be CDDB. (Though CD reissues often have extra or different tracks.) Most often I got up the LP tracklist on Discogs or Mainly Norfolk in a window and cut/pasted into EasyTag in a second window. EasyTag can also rename the files to the track names.

I regret not photographing the sleeves as part of the process. Until I moved house and disposed of the LPs I often referred to them.