As far as the notion of donating to a
museum is concerned, if you were
interested I'm presently recommending the Research Library of the Wings
Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver. In general a
research library is probably preferable to a museum as such, since
documents have very little sex appeal when considered as display items,
but may be profitably viewed for research if properly supervised.
The Virtual AGC project has no affiliation with the museum, but has
received very significant help from the Research Library in the past,
and that is the basis for my recommendation. Obviously, there are
many other fine institutions which deserve consideration as well, if
you have some personal preferences in that regard.
Sadly, an important point to consider
about shipping documents, is that there is a non-zero probability that
they will be lost in transit, even if they are shipped by the safest
feasible means. The most popular methods of shipping in the
U.S.—namely FedEx, UPS, and the USPS—do not publish their shipping-loss
rates. If you google this question, you'll find any number of
meaningless personal rants about lost packages, demonstrating that one
or more of these shippers are terrible. However, somebody got the
bright idea of looking at the insurance rates being charged, and
estimating the loss rates from the insurance charges. On this
basis, one can conclude that FedEx and UPS are roughly equivalent to
each other, and that either of them is perhaps twice as good as the
USPS. Alarmingly, though, the package-loss rate would appear to
be on the order of 1%. By "on the order of", I don't mean exactly
1%; perhaps it is 2% or 0.5%. But it is probably less than 10%
and greater than 0.1%. (Figure it out for yourself: FedEx
and UPS charge something like $0.32 per each $100 of insurance.
So they must expect something like a 0.3% loss.)
Now, when you're shipping a commercial item the loss rate doesn't
really matter, because if you insured the object properly then in the
worst case all you have to do is to order another one. But when
you're shipping a one-of-a-kind object, you can't just order up a new
one. No amount of insurance can compensate for the loss. So
that's something you'll want to consider if you decide to ship your
documents to me.
And speaking of insurance, how much is reasonable? Well, recent
activity on eBay suggests that a typical Apollo Program document may be
worth about $300, so that's the number I'll arbitrarily use when
shipping items back to you unless instructed otherwise.