Dust-to-Digital Foundation

As of 2024, we have digitized more than 50,000 recordings on location at the homes of some of the world’s most prominent record collectors.

Our goal is to build a database complete with audio, discographical information, artist and composer biographies, song lyrics and notation. Our hope for this database is that it will serve as a musical Rosetta Stone for future generations by showing the links and cross-influences of the many musical styles captured on phonograph records in the first half of the 20th century.

We have partnered with a notable university to begin making items in our archive available online, and we are in the process of coordinating with their marketing office on the press release. Once the announcement is ready, donors will be among the first to know about this exciting collaboration and the access it will begin providing to our archive of recordings. 

Any contribution that you can make will go toward facilitating that vision and keeping the legacies of the musicians alive. It will also help sustain our social media outreach which enriches many people's daily lives and help facilitate a database to ensure that historic recordings will be available to future listeners.