How do you delete an Apple ID?

I have a account that I opened several years ago with my school email address. All my music and information is tied to this. Just recently, I got a propmt saying that I can't log in to my account because of a security risk and that it would resend a temporary password to my email address. The problem is, I have no way of getting to that email account anymore since I graduated 6 years ago and since then my school has deleted the account. Luckily, I was able to finagle my way in, but I got worried - what if this happened again and I couldn't log in at all and I just lost my whole music library and was locked out of my own iTunes and iPod? I would probably be pretty bummed.
This prompted me to update my email address, right? That is what any normal person would do, however, I guess I already made an Apple ID for that email too (silly me!). So I would really like to link my current email with my Apple ID, but I can't since it is already in use.
I there a way to delete one of my IDs so I can use that for my more prolific account? Or is there a way to transfer an entire account to a different account?

You cannot transfer items to a different iTunes account.
Stick with your original account.
Go here -> https://iforgot.apple.com
Answer the security questions instead of email.
If you can't get it sorted this way,  contact -> iTunes support. (iTunes > iTunes Store > Account management).
If after this, you still cannot get it sorted, use any other email you may have and change the new account to that email address and remove any CC info there.. (you could create an account at gmail and just quit using it after you are done).
Then you can use the current email address for your old iTunes account.

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