You should set the Artist to The Beatles, the Album to The Beatles (Stereo Box Set), set Disc # appropriately! and Date of each album to the original album Year (or full date).
I don't know that I agree with this.
Media Center doesn't make it easy to use "proper" tagging for collections like this, or keeping multiple versions of the same album without a lot of work on custom views/fields (and even then it's still not quite right) so this might be the easiest solution in the interim.
What you suggest will just list a single "The Beatles (Stereo Box Set)" with 16 discs and hundreds(?) of tracks.
As far as I am concerned, the name of the Album should be the
album name alone.
I would then use something like "2009 Stereo Box Set" (or just "Stereo Box Set") as the Description for these albums.
If you don't want to set up complex custom views though, it would be a lot easier to simply name the album "Abbey Road (Stereo Box Set)" etc. rather than using the description field, assuming you have multiple versions of the same album.
And due to the way that things are sorted, I use the original release date for an album in the date field, and a custom field for the date of
this release. (I actually feel like it should be the other way around, but that makes sorting a pain)
You may have to edit your view to change "[Album]" to "[Year - Album]" for them to be listed in the correct order though.