“The DLARC project is looking for partners and contributors with troves of ham radio, amateur radio, and early digital communications related books, magazines, documents, catalogs, manuals, videos, software, personal archives, and other historical records collections, no matter how big or small.”
Hams were doing digital communications before most of the internet existed. That history sits in newsletters, manuals and personal collections nobody has scanned. A private foundation, ARDC, is paying the Internet Archive to collect it while the people who own it are still around. That is what a grant should buy.