The enormous number of available inorganic glasses means that the number of possible composite materials is vast, especially when considered relative to those using pure MOF-glass matrices. Phosphate-based glasses in particular are broadly studied thanks to their relative low melting temperatures and biocompatibility. Additionally, the glass structure and several properties, such as the glass transition temperature (Tg), melt fragility, dissolution kinetics, surface hardness or elastic moduli, can be tailored by adjusting chemical composition of the glass. Motivated by the untapped potential of inorganic glasses as matrices for crystalline MOFs, here we describe the fabrication and characterisation of a new family of composites formed by ZIF-8 and an inorganic glass (IG), 50(Na2O)-50(P2O5). We termed the general family as metal-organic framework crystalline-inorganic glass composite (MOF-CIGC). We show several approaches to analysing pair distribution function (PDF) data, which reveal atomic insight into interface interactions, and show that these are consistent with magic angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) results.