The living computers museum in Seattle was amazing. Volunteers maintained all kinds of computing devices there. Visitors to the museum got to interact with any of the devices.
A few years back, I saw that a lot of my retro stuff was beginning to fail simply due to aging components. I donated what I could to those that could do something with it but it was kind of sad to see that non of this is going to be with us for a long time.
It is crazy in video games seeing stuff like PlayStation 1/2, Gamecube and Xbox DVD's are now starting to suffer from disc rot. It is looking like emulation or FPGA recreations by be the long path ahead if you want to experience as it was.
I still miss weird stuff in sunnyvale, but this will have to do.
Reminds me a bit of the community tool libraries. And maybe could serve a similar purpose.
Like if you find some old media that you'd like to read. Or want to use an old device with a rare connector.