Consolidating accounts into 1

Thanks in advance for anyones help/advise with this..
I currently had a single windows PC with 2 seperate user logons for my wife and I.
We have 2 seperate apple store IDs and 2 seperate windows logon profiles and therefore 2 seperate itunes librarys that we sync our devices with.
We have a 'shared' music library (public folder location that both libraries point to) and have both individually purchased music and apps from the Apple store.
The issue I have is we would prefer to have a single library so that when one of us adds new music or apps - then it appears in the library for both to sync without us having to manually add files / folders to the library (or remember to tell the other person it's there)
Right now when album art is set and anything gets moved around or renamed then it causes trouble for the other person!
How best can I 'migrate' one or both of our accounts to achieve this? Of course neither of us want to lose any of our previous purchases but are happy maybe to purchase under 1 account moving forward and login with a common profile to a single library.?
Suggestions are welcome!

All purchases will be tied to the account from which they were purchased.
You cannot merge accounts.

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