This involves a minimum of staff time and can include several entire books. LSTA money is also currently available for digitization. Use someone else's time. Others in your community have done the work and are looking for someone to provide web space, stability and publicity. Genealogy and historical societies are great places to recruit volunteers for OCR projects.
Schools have classes that study local history, writing and computer science.
It only takes one teacher to bring a whole class of volunteers with her. Teens can also be involved individually as volunteers. Fit it in along the edges. Scanning in a set of photographs is something that can fill a slow afternoon. Typists can retype a valuable document in a few minutes.