Plex, Musicbrainz and multiple releases of the same album

Rather than editing your current library, I recommend creating a new “test” library with the “prefer local metadata” option enabled. That way, you can see what Plex will do without messing up your existing library.

BTW, there’s a little more to do than just that checkbox to fully configure Plex to use local tags:
[HowTo] Configure Plex to use embedded metadata (music)