Apple TV and old audio system

Here's what I want to do. I want to put all the CDs on an external drive connected to the network (do I need a Time Machine or other Ethernet connected hard drive?) and share with everybody in the house. Then I want to be able to get the music to play through the old RCA cabled stereo. (I would need an optical audio to RCA cable, right?) Since the AppleTV and the Airport Express are about equal in cost which would be better?
Would this work?

It's not quite as simple as finding an optical audio to RCA cable. Optical audio carries sound in digital format, RCA cables carry sound in analogue form. You will need something (pretty expensive) to convert digital signals to analogue.

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