When to give up CDs and TT?

@bigby I would discuss an option for recording the available Hard Analogue and Hard Digital media with @colossalsound .

I'm confident a method to create a Digital File to a very high quality can be advised, which will then provide access to your hardly used hard media music collection.

When the files are created, the decision about the hard media's future with you might become much easier to make.

Who knows when making digital files, the regular rediscoveries of the hard media being played might fan the embers and reignite an olden interest? 

TT now, CD later, and local SSD files when streaming is unavailable. We can make a digital rig sound as analog as we desire, so what is the point of keeping a turntable? Audiophiles who want digital to sound analog and analog to be as detailed as digital seem somewhat ambiguous in what they are really seeking.

When I was young, I abused my vinyl with cheaper turntables and whatever cartridges they came with and I wore out a lot of albums! After replacing CCR, Cosmos Factory three times I was happy to try a CD player and buy a few discs. They didn’t sound right at first, but in the late eighties, I was convinced to try newer CD’s. And some of them did sound better. I started buying mostly CD’s from that point on. I bought my first streamer maybe four years ago and it was fun listening to new music but I really missed having something in my hand to read.  Now if I hear about an album and it’s not on Qobuz, I buy the CD. I haven’t spun a vinyl in a few years now, so my TT’s and what left of my vinyl (mostly symphonies) will probably go the way of the Dodo.

I got out of vinyl decades ago and went cd’s only. I just got into streaming about 8 months ago and absolutely love it. 
 

BUT, I have no plans to abandon cd’s. Heck, I just bought a new cd player a few months ago after my old unit died after 17 years of hard use AND I still buy new cd’s!  I listen to both formats daily. 

Sounds like the OP is ready to ditch physical media.  I am not sure what he is requiring from other posters.

  I have found that sometimes streaming services will delete recordings when they actually aren’t available as physical media.  I listen primarily to Classical and this is a particular issue with recordings that had low sales figures.  Depending upon what’s in his collection he may want to copy some content to a hard drive as a hedge before dumping the lot