Lots of C code have already bitrotted because APIs it depends on have been abandoned. Resurrecting it isn't just a matter of compiling the code, but recreating the environment it ran in.
Nowadays storage capacity is developed to store video - this is really the only thing that needs a lot of new storage capacity.
Every line of sourcecode written by every programmer ever is a fart in the wind compared to what's being uploaded to Youtube in the next 60 seconds.