Abstract: Digitalization endows red cultural resources with more abundant forms of presentation, facilitating teachers to conduct ideological and political courses in a profound, thorough and vivid manner. The digitalization empowerment of red cultural resources for ideological and political courses in colleges and universities is confronted with practical predicaments such as insufficient development, low utilization rate, shallow integration and incomplete guarantee. Empowerment strategies can be adopted to enhance the educational effectiveness of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities, such as conducting overall planning for the in-depth development of red cultural resources through school-local cooperation, increasing the utilization rate of digitalization red cultural resources by adhering to value guidance, improving the integration quality of digitalization red cultural resources by insisting on strengthening content construction, and comprehensively establishing guarantee mechanisms and evaluation systems for the digitalization of red cultural resources.