Even if multiple staff and volunteers manage to record eight items each day, the overwhelming Museum Digitisation Project is still expected to take up to a year.

The goal is to make every object, where culturally appropriate, available to the community online, Tamworth Regional Gallery and Museums director Bridget Guthrie said.

"It's about ensuring that advice and understanding from a First Nations perspective is there and recorded with those collection objects," she said.

"It's simple things like documenting an object where the wording should be bilingual and including Gamilaraay and English.

"Or, some objects aren't appropriate to document and we need to respect the permissions around that, we don't always have that specialised knowledge so that's where First Nations knowledge is so paramount."

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The Powerstation Museum, Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, Tamworth Film and Sound Archive, the Gil Bennet Rocks, Gems and Minerals Collection and the Moonbi Museum are part of the project.

Expressions of interest for First Nations contractors to take part in the project close on Thursday, the project should start in July.

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