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I have, in a recent past, pondered this question myself, about the safety and integrity of my vintage TV sets when I'm gone. Well, I don't know about you guys in North America, Europe and Australia, but at least here in Brazil it seems that there's a legal way to prevent the worse from being done to them. Looks like I can make a register of my collection, on the related governement organ that deals with museums and so on, as a "private" or "personal" museum. Meaning that I am the sole owner of this collection, but also, that legally no one, including myself, can destroy, dump or promote changes on any item of the collection - can restore, but not change the normal configurations. It means that in the event of my death, whoever inherits my TVs will legally be forced to find a decent place for them, if he/she is not interested in keeping them.
In the southermost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, there are many of this personal museums, created by descendants of German and Italian immmigrants on their own houses. Those houses are true heavens for "nut people" like us, with lots of interesting stuff, like 1930's radios, 40's and 50's refrigerators, and, yes, some of them do have some late 50's/early 60's TV sets, like the Philco Predicta.
I went to one of those museums many years ago, and the family still had a 1920's refrigerator in working condition.
One nice thing is, once you make the legal registration, the government people even teaches you some "museology techniques" to help on the preservation of the collection.
Since I not only have those ( here in Brazil ) rare 1950's TV sets, but also other types of vintage stuff, like 1940's, 50's and 60's magazines of different types, 78 RPM records, political propaganda material from the 50's, vintage toys and some vintage home appliances, it's really the best thing to do. I don't have any children yet, but since there's no way to be sure if he/she will be interested on keeping those things, I can be happy that there's this law.
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