Welcome to a brand new year! It’s time to clean up, organize, and make room for new things! While you’re in the process of cleaning, you may find that you have a lot of old memories stored in old formats: home movies on film or VHS; music on vinyl, tape, or CD; family pictures in photo albums, on old phones, or on slides.

So what do you do with all that?

Why, you put those videos, songs, and pictures on your computer, tablet or portable player! (Or DVD/CD, if you prefer!)

VCRs are a rare commodity today, and you, like most people, probably have a shelf full of tapes you haven’t watched since your last VCR kicked the bucket. Maybe you have movies you want to share with loved ones: with children that are now grown, with relatives who live far away. Maybe you just want to watch an old tape of your favorite vacation.

Vinyl is making a comeback, but it doesn’t make music any more accessible. CD’s are great, but CD players (like VCRs) aren’t exactly commonplace any more (and tape players were already on their way out when CD players were in). If you have a smart phone or an mp3 player, you probably want your music there.

Photo albums can be a hassle to keep organized and keep track of, plus they take up so much space! Old cameras and camera phones aren’t doing your pictures any favors either. One day their batteries may go dead, or you may lose the SD card the pictures are on, and then what?