Previously, we covered how our musical heritage is disappearing in front of our very eyes. Well, ears actually, but you get the point. Then we looked at the measures being taken to find and restore missing archives. But after recovering what’s left of our past, what will we do in the present to preserve our heritage for the future?

There are four main questions, as I see it: how to store music, how to access what’s stored, where to store it, and the elephant in the…