Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable?

Thank you all for the responses and a very entertaining conversation. This hobby can be an amazing rabbit hole and as I have started, innocently, to consider equipment I’ve begun to appreciate that I may have entered the rabbit hole of all rabbit holes. 
 

Do I need a turntable? Probably not. Would it give me pleasure to have an attractive piece of kit to play with and look at and reacquaint myself with the 75 or so albums from the 60’s - 70’s that I have tucked away? Absolutely. Therein lies the benefit I guess. I don’t have a $100,000 system or thousands to spend on pursuing some holy grail, but the joy of adding something new to my system keeps drawing me in and that pretty red Rega P3 I have my eye on would look so nice. That and the memories of taking that new Beatles or Dylan out of the sleeve for the first time and setting the needle down on that spinning wax are still sweet. 

I wound up deciding to purchase a Rega 3 with an Ortofon 2MR Bronze cartridge which I was able to get from Music Direct at an attractive price. I was on the fence until my wife told me I had an additional 150 albums tucked away in a cabinet for 30 years that I had completely forgotten about - these in addition to the 100 I already knew I had. Arrives Saturday. Here we go. 

Finished hooking up my new turntable about an hour and a half ago, and looked through my albums to find some that were in premium record sleeves and untouched for >30 years. First one up was Dire Straits from 1978. Out of the sleeve and onto the turntable with no cleaning(I’m waiting for the kit I ordered). Not a click or pop or even surface noise. Just sweet and very present music.

So I answered my original question(at least for myself). It was definitely worth it.

One more thing I discovered. Listening to digital I stopped listening to albums; digital streaming had given me a kind of musical ADHD. Vinyl is a whole new(and old) experience.

Now I am onto listening to Richard & Linda Thompson’s album Pour Down Like Silver on Carthage Records from 1983 which, by the way, is not available on Tidal or Apple Music  

Thanks for all the responses to my original question.

I don’t know if it is my imagination but the depth of sound and presence is noticeably different with vinyl. The digital was also terrific but the music sounds a bit more alive. 

I don’t know if it is my imagination but the depth of sound and presence is noticeably different with vinyl. The digital was also terrific but the music sounds a bit more alive.