For several years, I bought older vinyl not for the vinyl itself, but for the cover art, which I hung on my living room walls with Records on Walls: https://www.recordsonwalls.com/. Many of them have an aesthetic quality all of their own, like the gatefold of Led Zeppelin IV, or the subtle yet iconic "EKG" from Dark Side of the Moon.

It's much more recently that I acquired a turntable and a preamp, so that I can actually listen to them.