Wired offers an article describing the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, a venture of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Donald C. Davidson Library. Currently they have digitized 6,000 late 19th-century and early 20th-century wax and plastic cylinder recordings. Offerings include music, speeches and comedy/vaudeville acts.

UCSB offers Cylinder Radio a live stream “featuring early black artists and composers”, along with downloadable mp3 and wav files.

All recordings on the site are in the public domain, and cleaned-up MP3 versions hold a Creative Commons license.

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