>>1540193VHS player. Analogue video capture card.
They've made approximately zero improvements in capture cards in the last 15 to 20 years because of the move to digital broadcasts. Even 20 years ago the good ones were all based off the same chip.
Player needs to have a stereo head if you have stereo recordings. SCART or component video is better if you have a video player that supports it so get a device to support it too. You can get USB capture devices rather than cards. Hauppauge is fine. Used to be one of the go to brands.
Capture in a lossless format like HuffYUV. You'll get huge files but you can edit them easily with no loss of quality. Go easy on any denoise. Once you're ready choose a compressed format with a good but not over the top quality, it's analogue and even worse VHS, so maintaining all that fine detail isn't the biggest problem.
If it's old tv broadcasts, consider keeping the advertisements somewhere, even if at a lower quality. When you taped VHS you wanted to get rid of ads to save tape but now they have nostalgic interest as well as historical.
