Good questions, @Symbioquine :
I ultimately want the text, so if the audio can be transcribed immediately to text (i.e. the way i input most texts of any significant length on my iPhone), that would be preferable.

notes (e.g. documentation of procedures to follow) related to the subject asset

How is this kind of notes/documentation currently stored and accessed for your operation?
Depending on what info/ used by whom, it is eitherTrello (kanban) boards, Google docs & sheets, or Notion (the only proper db in the lot) in a few edge cases. So we can say: mass-market Cloud SAS apps, as a rule -all of which have decent API access, as it happens.
As concerns provision of links to related log files, i like the direction this is going w/ @pat … And as to context-sensitive classification of assets, by QR code and/or GeoLocation, i’m thrilled to hear that you’ve got such capability integrated already.
Can’t wait to have this running on my iPhone &sync’d to my farmOS instance at Farmier!