This is a really tough problem to solve. Getting research into the public's hands isn't very difficult because you can just put pre-prints into biorxiv or medrxiv. Doesn't really matter what the content is as long as it follows the formatting guideline. I think the bigger problem with those platforms is the limited functionality to interact with the content. It's basically no different from just reading printed paper.

What currently gives the research weight is the peer review process and the "scarcity" perception of the publishing outlet. Peer review is already highly skilled unpaid work because journals maintain their monopoly over the process, and the journals themselves manufacture scarcity by publishing only what they think brings them more money. By extension, funding typically goes to researchers that publish in those artificially scarce journals. That creates a lot of intertia in the system.