greetings

I would like some guidance please re archiving (into the digital domain) a
lot of material from 1/4" tape which has been dolby decoded. Is it possible
to decode the Dolby SR in digital domain via a plugin or some such? Googling
does not seem to give any promising leads at all.

The alternative of looping the material back out through a hired decoder and
re-recording does not appeal particularly but realistically this may have to
suffice, given that any mistracking and the quality degradation could be
minimised by recording the original material in 24deep/96KHz. The final
result will be 16deep/44.1KHz.

Although I understand that decoding the material as it is dubbed will
produce the optimum results, it is not a viable option unfortunately.
Hireage cost is significant and there is just too much material. It would
seem far more time effective to compile the material first.

Thanks in advance for any guidance here