Interesting problem Frank. In fact digital preservation is a big problem around the world… see the Wikipedia article on Digital Libraries.

My suggestion would be to load all your photos (along with detailed descriptions) onto Wikimedia Commons, where they will be stored as part of an enormous searchable public archive. For the text content, you could use an archiving site like backupURL. I have not used this service, so I’m not recommending it, but its an example of a free web archiving site. I don’t know how long sites like this will last, but if you use several sites like this your content should be around for a while.

An interesting Argosy side note: When I was a kid growing up in Melbourne, I often rode my bike over to Essendon airport to watch the comings and goings. One day VH-BBA was in the Ipec hangar undergoing some serious maintenance, so my mate and I talked our way up into the cockpit and sat inside her for a while. When we came to leave, we swung ourselves down from the cockpit into the cargo bay via the floor hatch in the cockpit. As we hit the floor we noticed that the entire aircraft was rocking. It turned out that BBA had her wheels off and was sitting on jacks, from which we almost tipped her onto the floor!

Cheers,
Derek

DB Design Bureau – Drawings of Australian aircraft