How do you turn hundreds of hours of life story interviews with scientists and engineers into a web-resource that will be attractive to a wide range of users outside the history of science community but which also offers a window for researchers onto the extended archive? This was the challenge facing the Oral History of British Science team when we started work on the web resource intended to showcase the results of a major fieldwork project based at the British Library under the auspices of National Life Stories and which will, by the congress, have collected over 100 interviews with engineers, earth scientists, applied scientists, oceanographers and the technicians that supported them. This paper will describe how we went about curating and collecting content for the web resource, how our efforts linked with the other types of expertise required to create it and what we learned about how users engage with material online. We will suggest how our experience might be drawn upon by others seeking to develop a resource of this kind and hope to be able to demonstrate the finished product, due to go live in early summer 2013.