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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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Unfortunately CD’s don’t seem to be worth much at this point in time. Just a couple of years ago, I stopped by a garage sale on a fluke and ended up buying just under 1200 CD’s for $150.  I kept about 90 to fill in some blanks in my collection and then gave the rest to a buddy who took them to a huge Flea Market. He sold something like 125 of them out of about 1100!  On his way home, he dropped the rest off at Saint Vincent’s thrift shop and he was nice enough to give me the receipt for my taxes.😁

All the best.

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