India, Sept. 18 -- When baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, passed away in September 2020 at the age of 81, the media team at the San Francisco Giants was asked by a regional sports network if they had any footage or interviews with the base-stealing champion.

A few years ago, the media team would have disconnected that call for help and turned around to look at a massive physical library of 17,000 tapes going back decades that included video tape, audio tape, and film assets. Where do you start? Who knows just how many weeks or even months it would have taken to track down the right segments of the right tapes from when one of Brock's teams was visiting San Francisco? The moment...