Maybe that will have some value. Maybe then perhaps you can find a partner, perhaps a non-profit organization, with rights to a body of material. Convert it all to HTML, install a full-text search engine, and you've got a worthwhile site. Web publishing is getting much more competitive. If you don't have piles of money, you have to figure out what you can do better than the rest of the folks out there.
Electronic publishing is great.
Revise anything at any time. That's what I thought in late 1993 when I was getting into Web publishing. If you're Hearst and you decide that a magazine isn't making it, you can just stop printing it. Travels with Samantha was the first Web site that I built. I only got 10 angry messages from other Web publishers who'd linked to those now-missing files.