Comment by garlic_enjoyer

Assuming they have been transcribed, yes. The key idea that makes LLMs special is the attention mechanism. Maintaining attention over volumes of data is boring for most humans.

Also, to be pedantic, just taking about LLMs in this context is a tad reductive. There are many deep learning models involved in archival work that aren't language models.

I encourage you to read into this post for more context on what I mean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179