Oops, HOUSE FLOOD!! Audiophile vinyl collection got soaked. Where do we go from here?


I guess the lesson is you never can store things too far off the ground.  We had a house flood, and our late-70s-early-80's audiophile vinyl collection got soaked.  We removed platters and spread the covers throughout the house (pics are enough to make a collector cry), stuffed and dried them, re-glued parted seams, and then pressed them for several days.  Cover art itself survived mostly in good shape, but the cardboard stock pretty much all shows effects, varying amounts of bent corners and wrinkling, none of it good.  So we're left with a collection of pristine platters, about 50 never played, the remaining roughly 125 played once for transcription to tape.  We still have all displayed (but on higher shelves, lol), but the brand-new cover look overall is gone.  We're in our 70s, at the point where divesting is more on our minds than continued investing, so any advice on how we might market all this would be appreciated.  We'll obviously suffer a huge discount from what we had, but have emotionally gotten past that, and life moves on ...    
stanr

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Dang i’m feeling your pain,I lost a couple thousands lps and like 5ooo cds 10 yrs ago.It’s a pain that will linger :( . my lps were in a different room and evaporated ,the cds were upstairs and got severly smoke damaged .I cleaned and cleaned annnddd cleaned the cds tossed probly 15 beer cases full .The lps i would pay attention to getting those covers dry or trashed well before the lp is returned.The mold is a b----- i would also buy all new sleeves for the lps .There are good deals on 100 lots on ebay etc.
good luck man
As for me and insurance they almost laughed outloud when i said i had that many and there 100k plus value.I got zip ,a lesson to all !! take pics and document that media.The gear was replaceable cj pv12 ,classic 60 , maggies,subs,linn lp12 etc etc still nothing in comparison to the media .