The Collection of sound recordings include disc recordings, tapes (open reel and cassette), and compact discs.

Compact Discs: Compact discs from 1984 to the present, primarily soundtracks. Also contains discs from the early 1970s RCA Victor Classic Film Scores series (conducted by Charles Gerhardt), including music by Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Miklós Rózsa, and Max Steiner, the Rykodisc series of music from the MGM and United Artists vaults, and the 1995 Rhino Records compilation "Academy Award Winning Songs (1934-1993)." (more than 1,000 items)

Disc Recordings: Largely commercially released soundtracks. (more than 5,700 items)

Cassettes: Cassettes of music soundtracks as well as for other recorded sound (lectures, interviews, programs, and so on). (more than 4,000 items)

Open Reel tapes: Interviews, lectures and tributes, and miscellany. Numerous interviews with film personalities conducted by Rudy Behlmer, Peter Bogdanovich, Jack Hirshberg, Bert Reisfeld, Tony Slide, Donald Spoto, Tony Thomas, Max Wilk, and David Zeitlin. (1,900 items)