Deni, you're certainly not the only person interested in these songs. I recently bought a set of old song books from the early part of the 20th. century.

I was thinking the same as you, of publishing them on the web, but I suspect that the copyright issue would have to be resolved independently for each song.
So of course I haven't even started it yet.

I also picked up 14 volumes of an 1890 something edition of The Arabian Nights. I've not counted yet to see if all 1001 of them are there. And I've got to do something with them. I can't let them just sit there.

Bert.