You might could find another meter with a good selenium cell and replace it with that. Or you could replace the selenium cell with a silicon one. Then you’ll have to add a resistor to compensate for the increased voltage, or use some kind of filter over the sensor to drop the light. Finding the right value or resistor or right strength of filter will take some trial an error, and it probably won’t ever be as accurate across the entire range as it was when new. Or you could wire in a cds cell and the appropriate battery and additional circuitry, if there’s room for all of that. But that wouldn’t be a simple task.
I have a couple of selenium meters. They’re all still pretty useful, so long as you remember to drop the ISO one stop to compensate for their decreased sensitivity.