I recently found my dad's iPod and laptop. It was thrown into a box of stuff after he died pre-pandemic. I remember how hard he worked at building his iTunes library; whenever he traveled, he would raid the local libraries, friends and family, etc and rip choice CDs. He had very good taste and he also kept things very well organized, even downloading correct artwork, etc. and clearly he was a bit of a pirate. Here's the issue: it's all opera and classical. I don't really care for opera at all and I grew up listening to classicial around him and it honestly bores me.
I know we all have these fantasies of our kids (if we have them) enjoying our music catalog after we're gone, lovingly handing it down to them. I have kids but as it is, they grew up with my old iPod nanos so they literally already know my digital catalog and someday they might be interested in my 300+ LP collection. My dad's catalog is around 5k tracks.
I'm at a loss for what to do with his catalog of music. I don't really want to sell it since it does contain some pirated stuff but has anyone else been in a similar situation and what did you do? In the greater philosophical sense, it does make one realize how unprecious most of what we have is or will eventually be.