Video games are bringing new life to folklore in their digital interactive reiterations, and games are definitely a platform that highlights folkloric aspects well (personal horror, disorienting strangeness, interpretative play, humanity-centrality). Whether or not video games are truly "saving" folklore, they're certainly exposing a new generation to these types of stories and opening up a new chapter of possibility so they can continue to live and breathe.
"How Video Games Like the Witcher Are Saving Slavic Folklore" by Peter Ray Allison https://www.alphr.com/games/1008348/video-games-witcher-3-slavic-folklore (Links to an external site.)
"The Folklore of Video Games: Using Narrative Design to Create Player Agency" by Nick Jones
The Mythos Podcast by Nicole Schmidt. https://www.mythospodcast.com/