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There was a Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago with a large archive of video tape of broadcast TV.[1] For decades, anyone could go there and ask to watch anything in the archive. But they closed over a year ago. They're looking for a new location, but that's been going on for a while now.

[1] https://www.museum.tv/

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I can’t speak to the entire archive you mention, but the Internet Archive accepted and is processing the Marion Stokes collection.

https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1393212448325308416 | https://archive.today/F0QDo

https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1392996252866932736 | https://archive.today/LFmyQ

https://archive.org/details/marionstokesvideo

https://archive.org/details/marionstokestexts

Is there anywhere we can get a current status of this effort? At first glance there doesn't seem to be anywhere close to the full archive (there are only 182 items in that collection).

There's also the Paley Center for Media[1], formerly the Museum of Television & Radio, in New York. They are unfortunately not completionist, but they do have good taste in what they do archive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paley_Center_for_Media

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