Blue Screen when Synchronizing with Wallet from 2014

Hi All, I've discovered a wallet.dat from 2014 in a backup drive and am trying to setup bitcoin core(qt) on a new machine, synchronize it, and see how much is in there / transfer it to a lighter wallet.

However, after about 15-20 minutes of synchronizing the PC blue screens and the chain is corrupt. I've replicated this now on 3 pcs. Is there an easier way to go about this?

Thanks.