For this particular subtask you may want to consider using Brian Davies’ excellent ClickRepair tool - it costs a little but is well worth it if you have many LPs to transcribe. You can have 1 14-day free trial to see how it works for you. Brian is a retired Australian mathematician who some years ago was undertaking the same task as you, transcribing his LPs. He realized that he could write some very focussed tools to help him with the clean-up tasks - the results of CR are a little shy of magical imo (and I listen on fairly high-end kit QUAD electrostatics ELS-57s)
Immediately after capture I export a 32-bit float WAV. I then process this through ClickRepair and then import the repaired 32-bit file back into Audacity for all further processing. See this sticky thread: Click/pop removal - ClickRepair software
This step also leaves you with an unprocessed raw-capture 32-bit file for archive backup should you require that.
You may also find this suggested workflow tutorial from the manual useful: Audacity Manual
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