I know this is a dumb question. But it's one that's been plaguing me for a while.
As part of my mom's estate when she passed a couple of years back, I came into possession of a very large number of family photographs. I don't know how many, exactly, but it required somewhere around ten heavy duty medium moving boxes (21 inches x 15 inches x 16 inches) to ship them home. There are photographs dating back to the 1960's as far as I can tell.
My question is this: After I get them scanned and backed up, what do I do with them? What is the accepted thing to do with physical media after it's been archived digitally? I could just throw them out, but that seems very wrong. They're family pictures. I could take them to Goodwill or something and donate them (seems a bit Bladerunner to me, really) but that is probably throwing them out with a few extra steps. I don't know of anybody who collects old family pictures.
I can't be the only person here who's been in this position. What did you do?