I am probably as old as you...I'm probably giving away my age, but the first records I ever bought and listened to, were all 78's! Later there were 45s and finally 33 1/3 records. Many records were recorded and much Classical music was available in analog records, but have never been released in a digital format. The best LP's nearly always sound better than CD's although some later digital formats aren't bad at all. I prefer analog LP's as I can't afford the cost of R2R tape like The Tape Project's products, which are far better than digital or anything else, however unfortunately are far too expensive for my budget!
I otoh have been an amateur recordist for almost 60 years and ONLY digital recorders sound exactly the same as the microphone feed IME. I started with valve tape recorder and upgraded until I have a Revox B77 and whilst each better recorder sounded more like the microphone feed and had less noise the first time I heard the output of the recorder indistinguishable to my ears to the microphone feed was early DAT.
I have lots of master tapes, loads of LPs and 4 turntables but because of my experience making recordings I know that that none are as accurate as digital.
OTOH I enjoy my LPs and, of course, each of my turntables sounds different so I can change the sound to taste - not possible with digital which IME has been audibly transparent for decades.