A family of Microsoft relational database management systems designed for ease of use.
You are going to have issues trying to jump straight from 97 to 2010. If you can find a copy of 2003, it should upgrade to that, then go from 2003 to 2010, not a problem.
I haven't tried this, but you may try starting with a new 2010 database and importing your tables, forms, queries, macros, and modules from the 97 version.