I'm disappointed.

Google actually scanned a huge number of newspaper microfilm and microfiche back in 2010-11: https://news.google.com/newspapers

It's an amazing resource, but it's hidden away and researchers within Google have trouble accessing it even if they knew it existed. I spent months with lawyers to get access to the original files for research and at one point they told me they were going to delete it! Whaaaaa!?!

It was something like 6 PB, which seriously, to Google isn't much, but the team that "owned" the data wasn't using it and to them it was just an expense. Ugh. People don't care about history.