What do you get when you take a former nuclear-fallout facility and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sound recordings?

The Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is a state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to this prized material.

Rebecca Sheir visits the facility in Culpeper, Virginis, where the staff is engaged in the monumental process of saving these materials for future generations.