The Kentucky Dance Foundation acquired the Folk Dancer label, record stock and record archives from the Michael Herman Estate in 1997. Two semi-trailer trucks were required to bring the records to Brandenburg, Kentucky from New York.

The 28,400 totally different records have now been sorted and shelved and entered into a data base. Mint copies of the records were used to make CDs of the Michael Herman Label. Sixty three CDs resulted with 10-15 tunes per CD. The Michael Herman Folk Dance tunes can now be provided on records or on CD.

In addition to the music on the Folk Dancer Label, there are numerous other records which were in the Herman inventory and most of these are for sale. Others recordings exist in the archive and are not for sale. However, in many instances even these can be provided on Special Order CDs