Thought I would signal boost this here…
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/340021-vhs-archaeologists/
"I have a fantastic collection of VHS and Beta I assembled back in the 90s… rare movies that haven’t been released to disk, off air broadcasts, animation that has since been censored, weird public access programs… amazing stuff. I carefully catalogued everything on index cards and always recorded at SP on high quality stock. But I know that I will never have time in my lifetime to go through and digitize the treasures in the collection.
Are there video archaeologists who are looking for batches of tapes to explore? I live in Los Angeles and would gladly give them away to anyone who would appreciate having them and will pick them up. It would really hurt to have to haul them away to the dump in a truck."