I wish I'd done something like this. My dad passed earlier this year. I don't have any video recordings of his voice. Only memories. I had no idea what it would be like this side of his death. I think you made a really smart move.
It's also made me more aware that there isn't even much where I'm filmed with my own kids (I'm the one filming 99.9% of the time).
Quickly went and got setup to pull them down only to find out that the cloud system they were on had a software update that erased them!
I tried working with the company's vendor but they were never able to recover them for me. Do not ever wait, do it now while you still can.
Oh wow this brings back the emotions. Thank you I don't think I would have ever thought to look for these if it wasn't for your comment.