The main advantage of collecting vinyl for me would be to archive rare releases that never got onto another format.
For example, this vinyl rip i found on yt, has the description:
Vinyl rip of my original 1971 vinyl copy of this classic album. It has the paper-style (B.I.E.M.) label and the matrix numbers are 6397020 1+380 A10 and 6397020 2+380 A13, which are the earliest I have ever seen.
Although not worn, it has not always been treated very well during its forty-one years of existence. I have removed as many pops and clicks as I could without audibly degrading the sound quality and destroying the vinyl sound. To my ears, the final result is pretty close to what a near-mint vinyl copy would sound like. Without the noise reduction and compression (applied to all CD and recent vinyl issues of this album), the album sounds more spacious and livelier.
The main advantage of collecting vinyl for me would be to archive rare releases that never got onto another format.
For example, this vinyl rip i found on yt, has the description:
They’re right, it sounds great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grRaUpDyNk Serge Gainsbourg, Melody Nelson