RE: Digital Archaeology: Gateway M-1629
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The mainstream Debian release still supports 32-bit CPUs and Debian itself is one of the most well known distributions: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/
There's also a Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) that still supports 32-bit: https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=308
There are probably others but those are likely the biggest/most well known. Of course, who knows how long these distributions will be around. I suspect not all that much longer. Looking for something with a 64-bit CPU is probably still good advice. Even beyond that, I would recommend something that supports more than 4 GB. A lot of older 64-bit machines, particularly laptops, don't. This laptop is a perfect example. While it has a 64-bit CPU the motherboard/chipset is limited to 4GB which negates much of the advantage of having a 64-bit CPU in the first place.
But for now, 32-bit Core Duo based machines with 4 GB are definitely still good enough for basic computing and you can get by with less.