I am in possession of a Bible from the late 1800s. It was a family bible I acquired at an auction nearly twenty years ago (estate sale), and I don't have current intentions of selling it.

It is fascinating to me because it is filled with other documents, often seemingly used as bookmarks, such as early phone bills (one is for $0.17 around the 1930s if I remember correctly). There's a handwritten record of deaths in the family among others. Looking at the edges of the book when closed you can see it is littered with these things.

My question is this: I am a grad student at a university that has a pretty big history department (I'm in a different department). I was considering contacting them to see if they wanted to use the Bible and it's secondary documents for any sort of study or other academic purpose, but I didn't want to waste their time. Would something like this be of academic use?