The above small exchange prompts some further thoughts, for those that have the patience to read further...

Up to now with this thread, I have been (mainly) addressing the stated topic which is "Making folk club recordings available", however in my mind I have been conflating it with a related but different issue, namely, creating a long term repository (archive) of this material, something I had already addressed (sort of) with my parallel archive of photographs, see other mudcat thread, "A repository for your music pictures...".

For pictures, I figured that I could use Wikimedia Commons as both an archive and as the means to make the material available; as a repository, it allows you to upload material of as high resolution exists (more or less) and you are happy to release for public re-use, also it is maintained "in perpetuity" (hopefully) by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is a non-commercial, public-good operation.

However for audio and/or video recordings, the vehicle I have settled on - YouTube - at least for now, is not really archival quality: video and, in particular audio are not stored at their original highest quality settings (although the HD video capacity is pretty good, and probably exceeds the low-to-medium resolution of most of my original videos), with the result that the question of a long term archive (preferably maintained in perpetuity by someone else, at no cost to the depositer) is not really answered at this time: when I pass on, my original materials will still most likely go to the tip. Thoughts, anyone?