Please do more research. They are most decidedly not “simply too old”. They have been “refreshed” many times over - from engines, to flight electronics, to targeting and comms systems, to airframe structures, to coffeemaker automation.
The airframes still date closer in time to the Wright-Patterson Kitty Hawk flight than to today.
Sounds like a lot like ship of Theseus. The B-52 now is not not the same B-52 64 years ago.