There are so many good folk music resources, and I would love to find a way to keep them all alive. There were a number of folk music resources at Fresno State University in California, including the Traditional Ballad Index, but the professor in charge retired and suddenly all those resources were removed (luckily, the professor in charge made provisions for that and these resources are now hosted privately).
Great Britain has the English Folk Dance and Song Society Website to house all sorts of valuable resources: https://www.efdss.org/, but what is there in the US to fulfill this function? One of my pet projects is to find a way to make the entire run of Sing Out! Magazine available to the public forever, but I haven't been able to even get a response from Sing Out! I'd give ten grand to support a Sing Out! archive, but I'd give fifty grand to support an overall US folk music archive (if it's a nonprofit and I can get the tax deduction). Is there some way we can establish a Website to house any and all US folk music information? We can't let this be lost.
The American Folklife Center can and should be a repository for all of this, but I don't trust the state of American politics to be able to support this as a government entity. That being said, if our friends at AFC can promise they can do it, I'll be the first to donate fifty grand. I think this is an urgent matter - we cannot allow any of these treasures to be lost.