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What to do with a large collection

I have thousands of CDs and records and am looking to get rid of most of them. i can’t possibly listen to them in my remaining years and my wife doesn’t need them. CDs, it turns out, are not very viable these days, and if you want to sell them to a dealer you can only get store credit!! And, if as in my case, the collection is 90% classical, it seems they will be impossible to unload. Since CDs are antiques these days, I can’t imagine ANYONE who would want them. The only alternative I can see is the garbage. When you consider just how much of an investment they were it’s indeed a sobering realization.
Records are indeed “in,” but how desirable are classical LP’s?

Any suggestions?

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bipod72
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If you have the inclination and time, you could bundle your CDs into "lots" and sell them on Discogs/Ebay. So if you have several CDs of certain composers, bundle them like a box set and sell them that way.

The alternative is to trade them in for store credit and then sell the credit to someone else for cash and donate what you can't sell/trade in. 

My friends were surprised when I told them I still buy CDs but it's because I'm looking for better sound than streaming, and some artists' back catalogs were never released on vinyl. And if I'm buying used/new  from abroad, I prefer CDs as the chances of damaged vinyl are too great. 

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