If you want to improve playback of vintage vinyl from the 70’s buy yourself a nice vintage MM cartridge from the same era with Line Contact type stylus (avoid spherical/conical or elliptical).
The reason for advanced profile is very simple:
Most of those old vintage records are used, most of them have been used with cheap cartridges with very simple diamond profiles like conical or elliptical.
Line Contact, Micro Ridge, Stereohedron, Shibata... profiles can improve the sound quality because they have wider contact with the groove walls of the vinyl, there are previously untouched part of that grooves because simple/cheap stylus profile can’t reach that part of the groove due to very small contact area.
There are many great modern phono stages on the market, buy one of them for MM.
Regadring turntables you can always buy brand new Technics Direct Drive like SL1200GR for example.