I have used PVA glue (Aleene's Tacky Glue - WalMart craft dept) to clean and rehab many older albums. It helps if you thin the glue a bit with distilled water. Just add some to the bottle. I lay the album on newspaper or a plastic record bag. Make a daisy pattern of glue on the album and, with an old playing card or thin plastic card, in a circular manner, spread the glue over the grooves. If done properly, you will have no glue on the raised outer edge of the vinyl nor on the label. You want a uniform white layer. Let it dry until completely clear, which takes 8+ hours. Then, take a piece of scotch tape and stick it on the glue near the label, holding the end of the tape strip in your fingers. Rapidly pull up the tape, which will pull the dried glue up off the surface of the vinyl. It might take a few tries, but once you can get your fingers on the glue, pull it off the vinyl. Any little residue can be pulled up with tape. And expect pulling the glue to generate some static. Zerostat helps and doing this procedure on plastic seems to bleed off the charge quicker.
I own an 1/2 speed mastered Nautilus recording of Joni Mitchell that I had quit playing due to noise. I even wrote "noisy" on the cover. Thankfully, I didn't throw it away, like I did most of my old albums. One glue treatment and it sounded like new. The glue won't save an album made with regrind vinyl or something that is just plain worn out, but it will clean off dust and mold. I believer the PVA may refresh the vinyl, also. Yeah, it is a fiddly process, but it works. Do 3 -4 at once, so it doesn't seem to be a full time job. Great for used vinyl purchases.
