When finally disposing of them keep the degaussing coils. Opened carefully enough there's a lifetime's supply of the most beautiful copper wire.
I understand the need to save recorded material. I had a Phillips tape system with Hot Gossip on it. All I needed was the obsolete recorder to play it on.
My hearing is so badly damaged now I suppose I can't accept anything but perfect audio, which of course, rarely occurs. However, before Covid, I did visit the friend that gave me one of them and his audio was 'acceptable'.
He also gave me a small Sony amp with ~ 12" high speakers. Just with a phono hookup all I do is amplify the degraded sound. For a fair time I've just given up, but with the restrictions I need to get something workable. A sound box is out of the question but I guess Bluetooth earpieces might work.
I suppose there are very few TV's these days with good speakers. It's a really bad step back for me, I used to feed the VHS into my hi-fi and get superb sound. I recorded the 'Making Of', Cecilia Bartoli's Vivaldi album and the VHS was astonishingly better than the CD.
I gess the thing now is to find the preferred new Satellite box and find out what the sound is like.