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There are a few strategies that you can use to handle corrupted audio files received through POST requests in a Flask application:

1. Validate the file format: You can use a library like python-magic or imghdr to validate the file format of the uploaded file. If the file format is not valid, you can reject the file and return an error message to the user.

2. Check the file size: Check the file size against a predefined maximum limit. If the file size exceeds the limit, you can return an error message to the user.

3. Use exception handling: In case of any exception, you can return an error message to the user, indicating that the uploaded file is corrupted. You could also log the error message to a file for later reference.

4. Filter out noise or silence: If the audio file contains mostly silence or noise, you could use a library like pydub to filter out the unwanted parts of the audio, and process only the useful parts of the audio.

5. Use machine learning algorithms: You could use machine learning algorithms or speech-to-text engines to analyze the corrupted audio and extract meaningful information, if any.

Whichever strategy you choose, make sure to provide clear, helpful error messages to the user, to help them understand why their upload was rejected, and what they need to do to correct the issue.