Post houses archive to LTO for a good reason: nothing else touches its cost per terabyte. Then the second half of the bargain arrives: nobody can see what's on it, so restoring anything means a librarian, a robot, and an afternoon. The archive is safe and useless at the same time.
The problem was never the tape. It's that the tape had no window.
If you run StorageDNA, you already maintain the hard part: a catalog index of everything you've written to tape. Asset Foundry connects to that index and gives your whole team the window: one search across tape, NAS and disk together, previews for ~140 formats so a file can be judged before anyone mounts anything, and duplicate and cost reports priced on your own storage rates.
That changes what tape is for. Cold storage stops being a one-way door. Producers browse the archive like it's online, pull only what they actually need, and the expensive tiers hold only the work that earns its rent. The archive ROI report will tell you, in your own numbers, how much more belongs on tape than lives there today.
Cheap and visible beats fast and forgotten. Tape was always the first half. The SaaS is the second.