What's the best place to put scans of old periodicals for public access?

by neodiogenes

I've been helping the Boy Scouts of America archive some of their old media, and I found that they have high-resolution scans of their "Boy's Life" magazine, every month of every year since 1912. If nothing else it's a wonderful insight into how people of those times thought to best educate young men, or what they pictured as the "ideal" young man. It's actually pretty interesting how little changed over the years, although of course there is some notable stuff during the two world wars.

I don't know if the BSA is willing to make these public, but if they were, what would be the best place to put them so that interested parties can find them more easily?

You have two options here really:

Looks like BSA manages its own archives, and doesn't do it under contract with a university like a lot of other non-profit orgs. Therefore I kinda assume BSA is kinda into controlling their stuff, and wants to keep these digital items in their care and therefore pay hosting cost themselves? They should try their own installation of DSpace or CONTENTdm or whatever they like best. I personally prefer DSpace for management of PDFs, CONTENTdm is overpriced for what it is, and hard to browse.
No money, and no one at BSA cares? Anyone can upload text to archive.org, and it's very popular for material like this, and has the greatest recognition with the public. Major archives and universities do upload material here when they can (like if it's public domain material or they own the copyright).