Bulk erasure of old backup tapes?

Other than using a tape drive to write/erase each old tape of hundreds
that are to be discarded, can anyone recommend a quick and easy method
to render the backup tapes reliably unreadable allowing them to be
discarded?

Please advise?

Thanks
.

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