How to save & store used oak?

I have several single gallons of Flanders Red going with large oak pieces (3 inch lengths of oak staves) in them, and the same with several beers with Brett in secondary.

I have read that brett (and bugs) like to live in the oak. How would I save these oak pieces to have them available to inoculate new batches?

Do I dry them out (how would I keep them sanitized)? Do I store them wet (how do I prevent mold)?

Anyone know how good these would be to inoculate new batches.

as far as how to store, not sure. as far as how effective, if it was good enough for vikings, it's good enough for me (john palmer, how to brew) http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6.html

I have saved chips and cubes before- I just poured a bit of trub out with the chips into a baggy and tossed it into my beer fridge for the better part of a year. They seem to start back up just fine- a little slow, but that's no surprise since they were old and there wasn't much wood to hold bugs. I suppose you could do the same thing with short stave pieces. I have no idea about drying them.