Deauthorized, reauthorized, and lost music. Now what?

I just had the logic board for my Mac replaced and iTunes demanded I reauthorize. Fine. Then it asked me to authorize these ancient accounts I haven't used in forever, linked to email accounts I don't have anymore. So I followed the instructions and deauthorized everything, then reauthorized my current computer. Now it says it can't copy a lot of older songs that I would still like to have. I'm kind of stumped at this point.
Any ideas?

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