Free audio restoration software?

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Well I've been sorting through the dark and forgotten depths of my PC, and I found some of my old tapes that I'd recorded to my PC years ago with the intention of cleaning them up, and never got around to it. They're old 50s radio shows (Goon Shows for those of you who know what that is!), and as such the sound quality is poor, muffled, hissy, etc etc etc.

What I'm after, is some software, Windows preferably for ease, although I can always set up a Linux virtual machine if needs be, in order to let me clean these files up for free and hopefully make them a little easier on the ears.

Any help would be much appreciated!

EDIT: Meant to say, I've come across the name Audacity in my searches, I was just wondering what else there was available, and how this compared.
 
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Cooledit has some excellent restoration functions, better than many expensive "pro" packages.
Particularly useful is it's ability to "learn" the background noise profile of a signal.
 
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