Welcome back, have a happy birthday and what old stereos do you have?
I just gave a home to more than a crateful of 78 rpm records yesterday and yet I do not own a Victrola... but many 78's sound awesome using a ceramic cartridge and 3-mil sapphire stylus and amped via a TUBE amp
Long live the 6V6!
The modern portable players are bad for old records. The post-war players are tough and they are perfectly OK as long as you check/adjusting tracking forces to what is recommended for the stylus/cart combo.
For my 50th birthday - I picked up my first awesome console, a 1964 Motorola with 23 tubes, 3-channel/vibrasonic, 11 speakers in a 2-lid Drexel contemporary walnut.