I wonder if there is
some sort of soaking that could be done to loosen the floppy from its
jacket
The floppies were in VERY bad condition. Years of mosture, black mold on
the labels, softening and general destruction of the oxide and binder including
mold on the disk itself.
Since there are thousands of discs to go through, the data may appear on
later backups. I also have personally had problems with nasal infections
from working with contaminated material like this in
the past, so I made
the decision to discard them.