Nancy Reading wrote:We have a Canon EOS 40D
The camera body is not the important part. The lenses are. And you already have lenses for the EOS 40D.
Find a used camera body with the same lens mount that has the video features you need and fits the budget. I am sure you can find that.
No camera has good audio. If you want to record people, then the voice you want to record is in a different place than the camera and the microphone needs to be very close to the person you want to record.
There are handheld microphones ("portable audio recorders") with pretty decent audio quality. And you can plug in a lavaliere microphone if you are in noisy environments. (see "Zoom H1n" for example)
They should all have USB if you don't want to take out the SD card.
That means you will need to synchronize the audio later, but it isn't too difficult.