Tragedy of Newspaper Debt

Recently many newspapers in the United States have declared they are going to declare bankruptcy or stop printing. Should they completely go out of existence, this will be a major loss if not properly handled. I am speaking to their archives. The New York Times archives I study extensively for news of World War 1 that I can not get from history books or elsewhere online (although I study the archives online) and this reservoir now faces an uncertain fate as their maintainers go under. For the sake of historical value, these archives should be purchased and maintained by a historical society, or for those companies struggling without hope, generously donated to libraries or museum collectors in the United States to preserve the perspectives of old. I say this in all seriousness, please make a plea to preserve these archives of our past. These old newspaper clippings and articles contain our mistakes, our successes of the past, and maybe if we keep them around long enough we can take the time to learn from them.