We too have our entire vinyl colllection and also cassettes.
We can play the vinyls on one of several of our machines, but we don't have a working cassette player, except in a car, which is flipping annoying.
We buy "music centres" or "stereos" at auctions from time to time hoping the cassette will work and they never seem to.
Yet more school days to come I expect.
W keeps saying that her collection of early Beatles albums is worth good money! Well maybe, but I doubt it, as she has actually played them!
I love the idea of a record that can clear a pub!

A landlord I knew in a Devon valley used to put radio 4 on to encourage latecomers to leave after time was called, then we could have a lock-in!