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I still think that the old Steiner library list was more helpful...
The point of the BYU holdings link was to show what might be available for future releases. I dont know if it completely coincides with the old "Steiner Library." Does it?
Nevertheless, this BYU list - apparently compiled even about 20 years ago in 1996! - can sometimes be a bit misleading. For example, they list there a tape with a "studio track music recording" of THE BIG SLEEP, although it has long been cleared up by Ray Faiola here on this board during the last few years that nothing from the original BIG SLEEP recording exists there at all.
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Obviously, there is little commercial appeal for these recordings, but I seriously have to wonder why Korngold territory has not yet been touched by Naxos. Similarly, Disques Cinémusique sure could find some of those Steiner library tapes and upload them to the likes of itunes, google, etc. Mind you, this is not a call for bootlegging, but just a search for possibilities to get this material out. Official releases of ALL this material seem to be highly unlikely these days and download versions would have far less production costs than CD runs...
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What collectors formerly got from the Steiner library were only audio cassette tapes. Only in 2003 they also began to sell CDRs of some of the scores, but it is clear that this at once became a thorn in the flesh of the executives at Warner and the website then very soon had to disappear completely.
It seems to be quite clear that Disques Cinémusique has no interest to rip those former audio cassettes and offer them as digital downloads. This is not their territory at all. At the moment they concentrate above all on LP and EP rips of records from the early 60s. And as all these (mainly French and US) records which were released till end of 1964 are nowadays public domain in Canada, they have quite a lot of material to choose from. 
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