I was reading about the Phonograph the other day
A phonograph record is a flat disc with inscribed spiral grooves
Yeah they said that it was revolutionarynat the time 
They were first made from shellac but in the 1950's , they made them out of vinyl
I have a lot of old records like those?
My mother has some too. The phonographic disc record was the primary thing used for music until the 20th century.
That is not that long ago really
By the late 1980's the compact disk took over and records left the mainstream in 1991.
Do they still make them today?
be manufactured and sold on a smaller scale, and are especially used by disc jockeys (DJs) and released by artists in mostly dance music genres, and listened to by a growing niche market of audiophiles. The phonograph record has made a notable niche resurgence in the early 21st century – 9.2 million vinyl records were sold in the U.S. in 2014, a 260% increase since 2009. Likewise, in the UK sales increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014.
As of 2017, 48 vinyl record pressing facilities remain
Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or simply record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first, the discs were commonly made from shellac; starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became common. In recent decades, records have sometimes been called vinyl records, or simply vinyl or even vinyls.