@neauoire according to Alej who was up until recently the digital archivist for the state we live in, there's some cool work out of Yale right now to make VMs emulation more accessible to (potentially non-technical) practitioners.

Here's an old post about some of it that I found. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2014/08/emulation-as-a-service-eaas-at-yale-university-library/