Years ago, the Library of Congress published recordings of significant collections of songs. Some have found their way to CD, but not many. I think that all recordings collected by a public agency, should be made widely available to the public. I keep finding Library of Congress recordings here and there, but I want MORE. I want them ALL.

The Library of Congress has an index of significant recordings called the National Recording Registry (click).

There is a Spotify playlist of many of the songs in the National Recording Registry. Let's see if I can make this link work: