as someone who has been in on this project for almost 2 years now I can attest to the usefulness the will have in the near future. however there is a way that you can help get all the info digitized faster and that is to volunteer as an index transcriber. there is also the new family search that you might want to try

http://www.familysearchindexing.org

https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/unsec/welcome