06-13-2023, 11:47 AM
Apparently not all Sempron + series CPUs are 64bit capable - you'd need to run a tool like CPU-Z (if you can find a version that still supports XP) to confirm. If it is 32bit only, you'd be restricted to running a 32bit distro, which excludes recent versions of Lite. 
With only 1GB of RAM, a 32bit distro would be recommended anyway.
If the machine has SATA drives copying migrating the disk contents to a SATA SSD would considerably improve the apparent performance of the existing setup. This could be done using another machine with the drive(s) removed from the original chassis. I have a Duron processor (even older and slower than yours, though with 2GB of RAM) machine still running XP to drive some specialised equipment with which I've done this and while the lack of CPU grunt shows the basic system runs quite well.
That said: if you can get the data into formats that can be used by more modern software, I would advise against trying to keep this machine alive because at 18 years old it is going to fail sooner or later. Depending where you are you should be able to get relatively inexpensively ex-business machines from Dell, HP and Lenovo that are only 5 or so years old but generally as well made as such things are these days. Such machines can run the latest distros very well. I'd be looking for - at an absolute minimum - 6th generation i5 (e.g. i5-6500) or i7 (e.g. i7-6700) CPUs, but machines with 7th and 8th generation i5/i7 CPUs seem to have become widely available here recently at reasonable (to me) prices. 8GB of RAM would be a minimum, and you shouldn't find it hard to get at least a 240GB SSD. Some even older machines (e.g. i5-4590) might also be viable if the price differential to the newer machines is big enough to make a budgetary difference, but these machines mostly tend to have old style hard drives rather than SSDs which are again more of a failure risk.
With only 1GB of RAM, a 32bit distro would be recommended anyway.If the machine has SATA drives copying migrating the disk contents to a SATA SSD would considerably improve the apparent performance of the existing setup. This could be done using another machine with the drive(s) removed from the original chassis. I have a Duron processor (even older and slower than yours, though with 2GB of RAM) machine still running XP to drive some specialised equipment with which I've done this and while the lack of CPU grunt shows the basic system runs quite well.
That said: if you can get the data into formats that can be used by more modern software, I would advise against trying to keep this machine alive because at 18 years old it is going to fail sooner or later. Depending where you are you should be able to get relatively inexpensively ex-business machines from Dell, HP and Lenovo that are only 5 or so years old but generally as well made as such things are these days. Such machines can run the latest distros very well. I'd be looking for - at an absolute minimum - 6th generation i5 (e.g. i5-6500) or i7 (e.g. i7-6700) CPUs, but machines with 7th and 8th generation i5/i7 CPUs seem to have become widely available here recently at reasonable (to me) prices. 8GB of RAM would be a minimum, and you shouldn't find it hard to get at least a 240GB SSD. Some even older machines (e.g. i5-4590) might also be viable if the price differential to the newer machines is big enough to make a budgetary difference, but these machines mostly tend to have old style hard drives rather than SSDs which are again more of a failure risk.