National Recording Registry

Registry title works, original or copies, are housed at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus for Audio Video Conservation.

Each yearly list typically includes a few recordings that have also been selected for inclusion in the holdings of the National Archives' audiovisual collection.

The criteria for selection are: The list shows overlapping items and whether the National Archives has an original or a copy of the recording.

As of 2023[update], the oldest recording on the list is Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville's Phonautograms which date back to the 1850s.

Two significant podcast episodes are included: "The Giant Pool of Money" from This American Life (focusing on the subprime mortgage crisis causing the Great Recession) and the Robin Williams interview from WTF with Marc Maron (before his death from suicide in 2014).

Martin Luther King Jr. 's 1963 " I Have a Dream " speech was one of 50 recordings preserved in 2002, the first year of existence of the United States National Recording Registry.