I'm wondering if the enormous bulk of this collection is a hinderance to being accepted? Is it possible that there may be subdivisions of it that would enhance existing collections in specific geographic areas or particular subjects?
If I won the Megabux, I'd build a library to hold 'em all and digitize the lot, but as with many things in folk music, finding the funds to make what OUGHT to happen take place is a major barrier.

Where are schools where there are graduate courses that encompass folk music?
Are any music schools/conservatories places where there might be interest?
Any schools of library science that might lend a hand in cataloging such a collection?

I greatly fear that decades from now folks will be talking about a resource that vanished. I've been dismayed to know how few people who identify as "folkies" know who Sandy & Caroline were, much less what they'd accomplished. Matt Watroba and I presented a festival workshop about the songs learned from Caroline Paton, and quite a few were there only because they knew it was a session where they could sing along, even if they had no clue who she was. I was shocked, but then the folks *I* know are the folks *they* knew. Gathering interest in Folk Legacy might be a perquisite to getting the library a home.

Still hoping for a good solution,

Joanne in Cleveland