For as long as they're useful to academics who want to study the Dead Sea Scrolls or as long as they're considered a valuable cultural artefact, they'll be conv

For as long as they're useful to academics who want to study the Dead Sea Scrolls or as long as they're considered a valuable cultural artefact, they'll be converted to whatever new formats become used. The same applies, pretty much, to the actual Dead Sea Scrolls as well - as long as people want them to continue existing, they'll be preserved, but without being actively looked after, they're likely to decay as well.