So I was thinking...

I live in an old house that seems to have several generations of mysterious copper wires running through it. I don't know what they were once for but they're just occupying space and they do NOT have electrical current running through them.

I just bought a radio that has an auxilary antenna plug-in. I bought a six foot copper wire antenna that works ok but isn't great. I had ambitions that I'd get VPR from the southern Hudson Valley but that isn't happening.

I got to thinking that maybe I could hook my radio up to the copper wires and those miles of wires would serve as a bigger antenna and I'd get more stations and better reception.

A couple of questions:

1. Would this work?
2. Is this going to kill everyone in the house?
3. Are there any other reasons I should or should not do this?