It’s easy to find the first season of “New Girl” on the Web, but what about something more substantial from television’s archives? Maybe a vintage interview with Thurgood Marshall? Perhaps rarely seen footage of John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail?
Even Netflix isn’t going to be much help there.
But WGBH and the Library of Congress are collaborating on an ambitious project to build the first comprehensive digital archive of content from the nation’s public broadcasters and will eventually make it available to the public over the Internet.