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Welcome aboard and you've found the right place for expert advice on vintage equipment.
Let's begin with the turntable. It is a Magnavox Micromatic which was built by Collaro of England. These changers were among the better quality models of the '60's. They use a better quality Electrovoice ceramic cartridge that tracks somewhere around 3-4 grams; so, your records should not wear out very fast on this one. Your speed problem is not normal and is probably due to old dried lubricants in the mechanism and motor. The first thing I'd do would be to take the motor out and clean all the old gunk out and re-oil it. Also make sure that the TT platter turns freely and that the rubber drive wheels turn freely and are in good shape. You might want to start a thread on the turntable forum concerning this TT.
The TV is a B&W. I just fixed a similar model and the chassis was full of those white ceramic cased paper capacitors. I had to replace all of those in order to fix my set. You could also have some dying electrolytic capacitors as well. I'm sure there are tubes in the TV chassis that are either weak or shorted by now. You'll need a tube tester to determine which ones are defective. You could also have a weak CRT (picture tube). Many times, these can be brought back with a good CRT rejuvenator.
I don't know anyone in your area that would be willing to take on this project; but, I'm sure other members will chime in. Like you have already found out, you can forget modern TV shops. Many of them have not been in business long enough to know what a tube type TV is and the older ones have the "I had to fix that junk when it was new and I'm not fixing it now" attitude. There are no "old school" TV shops left in my area and the ones that were here stopped repairing tube sets by the late '80's or early '90's.
BTW, does the stereo chassis in your set uses tubes or transistors? If it's tube, it was probably made between '61 and '63. If it uses transistors, it was probably made between '63 and '65.
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