I have the same problem and have "kind of" targeted this year to get them organized. I'm not ready to scan or digitalize, but am ready to prioritize and downsize. I agonized over the many photos I also inherited upon the death of my mother--SHE had boxes from her aunts and cousins who died before--I had gone through a few with her in the last years of her life and so was able to identify some of her friends and relatives, but there are still gobs of old-time photos of folks I don't know and there is now no one alive who knows or cares--my mother did not even know all of them. Still there is some kind of emotional pull that someone someday may want to see that photo taken in World War II or whatever. What's helping me is that I can't imagine my kids would experience it so differently, and I expect they too would just feel the burden passed on--that vague what do I do with these? thing that nags you because "photos" are special and harder to throw away. So far my plan is to save and label, and frame, our closest relatives, make 2 or 3 albums of "my" relatives, particularly with my brother and I as children with them--as these would be the ones that mean the most to me and might be amusing to my kids. That way, they would not inherit boxes! I still have years of our own nuclear family photos in boxes and again, I hope to mainly "albumize" just a few shots of each event and thin out the rest to keep some photo box storage; occasionally someone wants a photo for a project.

Both beautiful and terrible. Thank you for the photos. May you be blessed with endurance and strength for the cleanup.

Thank you for your input. Is this what you do for a single piece of art? I will have about 6 album covers in each column and 10 columns -- I'm looking to more "highlight" the way while the overhead lighting is low or off. Looking at the picture you attached I get the feeling I would need a huge number of lights to light up 60 album covers... Am I missing the point? Thank you

You may well, be able to do it, but, it looks like you already have a lot of work to do. Dont spread yourself, so thin, that you make yourself sick.