The collection consists of photographs and negatives relating to Radio Corporation of America (RCA), the Victor Talking Machine Company, which was purchased by RCA in 1929, and the RCA-Victor Division of Radio Corporation of America. The photographs can be divided into several categories. The majority of the photographs feature sound equipment manufactured by RCA and the Victor Talking Machine Company. These images include phonographs, radios, Talking Machines, Victrolas, Radiolas, radio-​phonograph combinations, speakers, amplifiers, facsimile machines and televisions. Most of this equipment was photographed seperately against a light background, although a few images show the equipment in use. Photographs of commerical and educational displays featuring RCA and Victor products are also part of the collection. A few non-RCA or Victor products, such as Emile Berliner's original gramophone, Edison's Standard Phonograph and the Columbia Graphophone, are also pictured.

People involved with or employed by the Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA are also featured in a number of images. Included in the collection are portraits of Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, Emile Berliner, who pantented the gramophone, the first commerically available flat-disk playing phonograph, and Eldridge R. Johnson, who improved the gramophone and founded the Victor Talking Machine Company. Employees of both the Victor Talking Machine Company and the Berliner company are also featured in the collection, appearing primarily in group portraits. The collection also contains photographs of a number of recording artists who worked with RCA and Victor; these include Enrico Caruso, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC orchestra and assorted other orchestras and singers.

Two smaller groups of images feature buildings used by the Berliner and Victor Talking Machine Company and recording industry advertising. Berliner facilities featured include phonograph factories and labs, shops and the Berliner Building in Philadelphia. Eldridge Johnson's machine shop, where the Victor Talking Machine was first produced, is also featured, as are assorted views of the Victor Talking Machine Company plant in Camden, New Jersey. Advertising images in the collection include photographs of magazine and newspaper advertisements for Victor and RCA products. The Victor logo, taken from the painting "His Master's Voice," is featured in many of the advertisements and on photographs of Eldridge Johnson's original letterhead. Assorted publicity photographs, showing people and animals enjoying phonographs and radios, are also part of the collection.