About 15,500 items of sheet music and about 700 music albums from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, as well as the personal papers of Snell.

27 recordings of traditional music, recitations, folklore and oral histories made in New South Wales between 1968 and 1995.

12,569 music scores which were used in Australian cinemas in the silent film era (roughly 1896 to 1929).

Albums and pieces of sheet music published in Australia and overseas, around 2700 books and pamphlets, mostly related to Western music, manuscript scores, papers from some composers and orchestras, and personal papers of Kenneth Hince.