diff --git a/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh b/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 9a81e8df9..000000000
--- a/.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-
-# this script helps to reduce sporadic link check failures by retrying at a file-by-file level
-
-retry_count=3
-
-for file in "$@"; do
-  for i in $(seq 1 $retry_count); do
-    if markdown-link-check --config "$(dirname "$0")/../config/markdown-link-check-config.json" \
-                           "$file"; then
-      break
-    elif [[ $i -eq $retry_count ]]; then
-      exit 1
-    fi
-    sleep 5
-  done
-done
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 4a3859fa3..d3680258c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ jobs:
           name: integration-test-results
           path: jmx-metrics/build/reports/tests/integrationTest
 
-  markdown-link-check:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
+  link-check:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-link-check.yml
 
   markdown-lint-check:
     uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-lint.yml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ jobs:
     # and so would not short-circuit if used in the second-last position
     name: publish-snapshots${{ (github.ref_name != 'main' || github.repository != 'open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib') && ' (skipped)' || '' }}
     needs:
-      # intentionally not blocking snapshot publishing on markdown-link-check or misspell-check
+      # intentionally not blocking snapshot publishing on link-check or misspell-check
       - build
       - integration-test
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-link-check.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-link-check.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ae577a584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-link-check.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Reusable - Check links
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+
+jobs:
+  check-links-github:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+        # need to rate limit requests to github.com in order to avoid 429s
+      - uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
+        with:
+          args: >
+            --include-fragments
+            --include github.com
+            --max-concurrency 2
+            .
+
+  check-links-other:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
+        with:
+          args: >
+            --include-fragments
+            --exclude github.com
+            .
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e7ad15c4..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-name: Reusable - Markdown link check
-
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-
-jobs:
-  markdown-link-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Install markdown-link-check
-        # TODO(jack-berg): use latest when config file reading bug is fixed: https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check/issues/246
-        run: npm install -g markdown-link-check@3.10.3
-
-      - name: Run markdown-link-check
-        run: |
-          find . -type f \
-                 -name '*.md' \
-                 -not -path './CHANGELOG.md' \
-               | xargs .github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh