Thank you all for the swift responses. I imported many of my conversions into Apple's music software (Windows version) which had places to put the metadata. That recognition software which took information from the internet seemed to latch onto some of it as well, so memorably in the case of an old recording of On The Town, I was able to procure performers, song titles, and information I considered metadata, just off of the assembly of WAVEs.

One OTHER thing I noticed was that when I copied the information from one magnetic disk to another, the computer warned me that I would 'lose information'. The only thing I could think of was that the disks were formatted differently. The old, well-used drive was NTFS and the brand new drive was exFAT. I went ahead with the transfer with no apparent problems, and the file information data returned the same storage values, but I think there might have been some characters that did not make the cut.