The BNE will give a new home to 42,000 vinyls from the RTVE sound archive

The RTVE Corporation and the National Library of Spain (BNE) have signed an agreement for the donation of 42,000 vinyl records from the RNE sound archive. This collection, made up of 14,000 LPs and 28,000 singles, is completed with a smaller batch of CDs.

The discs come mostly from Spanish National Radio of Bilbao and cover a wide variety of genres, from classical music to the beginnings of rock in Spain, through compilations of traditional music and other alternative styles. The donated lot includes recordings by Narciso Yepes, Imperio Argentina or Manolo Caracol, up to Mike Ríos y los Relámpagos, Marisol and other figures from the sixties in different styles, such as Los Canarios, Los Mismos, Camilo Sesto or the incomparable Camarón. Added to this are great figures of jazz, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington or Ella Fitzgerald. Also notable are operas recorded in the 1940s, concerts by Karajan and works by María Callas.

RNE in Madrid has a disco with tens of thousands of copies, which he digitized in a pioneering project between 1998 and 2002. Since then, territorial broadcasters use this digital file, so the physical collections have been falling into disuse. This makes duplicate disks They can be donated to entities and foundations to give them social use. Of all the works donated, preserves a copy in the RNE documentary collection, in addition to being part of the digital file of the Corporation.

In this way, he emphasizes RTVE, they are given a Second life and reduces the generation of waste, which contributes to SDG 12 of the 2030 Agenda, which is dedicated to responsible production and consumption, in addition to serving to promote education and the dissemination of culture (SDG 4).

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