Yeah, that is what I am finding. Nobody wants them or can play them. Seems a shame.

Some people get nostalgic over their audio cassette tapes, too. Doesn't make them quality recordings.

Yeah, I think my cassettes all self destructed in the 90s. heh heh.

I had an original 4 track Learjet player in my Camaro. It only played music by the Doors and Led Zeppelin.

Many of my old cassette tapes no longer play as they stick. Vinyl records are making a comeback though.

I wonder how many years before you cannot purchase a Blu-ray player? "Grandad, what are those shiny round plastic discs for?"

Vinyl records never went away, at least mine didn't 😁. I was fortunate enough not to acquire many cassette tapes. A bunch of VHS movies still taking shelf space. I doubt the decks would even work.

And, "My young friend, those discs are mostly coasters made by several toasters."

I still have my LPs, some mono, purchased in London in the 1960s. I also have a turntable but years ago I transferred my favourite tracks to CDs so my records haven't been played for a while.

Old cd's are still used by me.
I hang the CD's to rose bushes, for scare away the deer, which come to the garden at night to eat the rose noseps.

Unfortunately, I have no solution for my VHS kettles.
Maybe I should try if these are running at all, and then split me from them in an act of sadness.

I am so glad that I kept all of my LPs, EPs and 45s mainly from the 70s and 80s. As EricNZ notes, vinyl records are making a comeback. More and more turntables are now on the market, some of them with USB connections. I heard only a couple of weeks ago that AUs largest entertainment retailer (JB HiFi) reported that new vinyl sales now outsell CD sales. Its long be said by some (evidently 'many' now) that they prefer the analogue 'sound' of vinyl to the digital 'sound' of CDs. Somehow, in the video world I doubt that there are going to be many who prefer 4x3 Beta/VHS to 16x9 DVD/BD. Not that they get any use these days, but I still have 2 fully functioning VHS machines, one of them S-VHS (not that any of my current AV gear has any S-Video connectors).

But to DougT's original question - most of the small number of VHS/Beta movies I bought were replaced long ago with DVDs and then BDs in some cases - the VHS/Betas having been chucked. DVDs that are no longer wanted or have been replaced with BDs have been given to relatives or an Op Shop.

Vinyl records are physical media. Some time in the future it wouldn't take a clever person, or alien, long to work out that if you put a hard sharp point in the groove, attach it to something that resonates and rotate the round vinyl object you get sound! Magnetic tapes would be harder to crack. CDs, DVDs, and files on hard drives? The software to play them disappeared years ago back in what was called the "technology age".

Vinyl records are physical media. Some time in the future it wouldn't take a clever person, or alien, long to work out that if you put a hard sharp point in the groove, attach it to something that resonates and rotate the round vinyl object you get sound! Magnetic tapes would be harder to crack.

In the back of my mind, I recall that the USA sent a time capsule into space many years ago. A Google/Bing search found out that this occurred twice in 1977 with the launches of Voyager 1 and 2. Each craft had a copper LP called the "Golden Record" as well as an 8-track tape featuring greetings from earth in 50 languages, natural sounds from earth, and 90 mins of songs from earth.

@Musicvid might have to send his Camaro with the 4-track into space to give the aliens a chance to play the 8-track. But what a great car the Camaro was back then - and it had a terrific launch TV ad:

But data archiving is iffy technology-wise. All that data stored years ago on 5.25" and 3.5" floppy discs - how is that data accessed today? Only by continually copy/posting that data over the years to the next technology assuming that the next software technology will be able to decode that data. All those precious photos taken on smart phones - how do they survive into the 2300s? I have a portrait photo of my great-great-grandmother who migrated from Ireland to Australia in the mid 19th century - it is a physical photograph and didn't/doesn't need updating to new technology every so often.