Joanne
Aside from the general reflections about context, the importance of the medium on which something is written, and how to deal with the conflicting needs of integrity and preservation that other posters have raised, there's a special aspect to your brass plaque - at least, if the archive you're referring to is an Anglican one. If it is, then the plaque ought to have been erected after the granting of a faculty, and removed only after a further faculty or a decision by the Diocesan Advisory Council (or whichever method your diocese uses to close churches and dispose of objects in them). If that's the case, then the object has a particular status that needs to be taken into account in your decision-making process.
Generally, the relationship one has with a depositor is a critical one, whether the depositor is a parish acting under the Parochial Registers Measure or an individual, family or business; whatever decision you come to (and for me the decision would vary from case to case) needs to be understood properly by the depositor.
Chris
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