For the 8-tracks (my God, you still have a player that works?), you should be OK using the line-in jack on your soundcard. Make sure you use line-in, though, and not mic. The mic input on your soundcard has a crappy amplifier that will do nothing for your audio quality.
For the records, you're going to need an amplifier of some sort, connecting the turntable directly to the computer is going to sound like hell if it works at all. They make specialized phono preamps specifically for transferring records to digital. If that's not a possibility for you, you can probably get away with running the turntable through an amplifier, and running the line out from your amp into the computer.
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