I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage)

It might be worth getting in touch with the Internet Archive or Archive Team (http://archiveteam.org) and they will point you in the right direction.

My parents did of their home movies, holidays etc I then transferred them to a NAS.

It's not that terrifying, time consuming granted. But it's a simple process of grabbing an TV tuner card off eBay, connect the VCR via aerial coax and then encode the stream.

Most DVR applications have the option to encode, so it's normally a few clicks of a button.

I bought an "old" Panasonic DVD/HDD/VCR combo. They are old as in out of market since ~2010

https://www.whathifi.com/panasonic/dmr-ex99v/review And it was still 400€ but almost in pristine condition. Anyways it makes perfect VHS rips. It has a HDMI out so you can play directly on pretty much all TVs. Unfortunately there is no access to the files directly (DRM I guess) so copying to PC is a bit slow cause you have to burn it to DVD first (but it's not reencoding the rip so there is no quality loss after the first recording). That's the smallest problem. I wish there was a jailbreak or something cause there is a USB port on the device but afaik that's only for some kind of software based troubleshooting by the Panasonic service.

Also one of the reason I bought that it has a time base correction chip so no desync issue with old VHS tapes. Perfect sound and don't have to reedit them.

You might be able to find some advice/inspiration on the r/DataHoarder subreddit [0]. They also have an IRC channel (#DataHoarder on freenode [1]). The IRC channel is a little more informal, but the subreddit has tons of great info and discussions on not just storing data, but also digitization and organizing/cataloguing data.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarder

[1] https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat (in case you aren't familiar with IRC but would still like to check it out that should get you started)

I have lots of old media:

- ancient family movies taken on super-8 film by my parents

- merely old VHS tapes recorded from the tv of weird things like an old superbowl where something was in red/blue 3D (+ paper/cellophane glasses)

- semi-old 8mm (minidv?) recording of hours of the news on 9/11/2001

some things I just pitched, like 9-track tapes, vinyl records, and windows 3.1 and XP era games on cd and floppy disks.. Maybe should have kept them.

It won't seem so bad if you can do this on an ultra low priority basis. Meaning that you could do a tape every time you are near your digitizer. Perhaps that is 5 times per week. 5 tapes per week would get the job done in 26 weeks.

There are also professional vhs digitizing services that might offer a bulk rate. I'm only assuming that because of the large numbers of companies specializing in 8mm film transfer to digital video.

Yes. I learned that it is best to store those tapes with as little packing and coding as possible. MP4 might look good at a glance, but at some shaky action scenes vital information is forever lost. Raw DV for example takes 1 Gigabyte / 4 minute, but multi-Terabyte disks are quite cheap.

This piece on digitizing home movies on VHS may be helpful: https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/

tl;dr is to find some professionals to digitize your VHS tapes for you.