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In addition what everyone else has mentioned, my plan (yet to be implemented) is to slowly organize the photos into albums, e.g. "Family vacation to Hawaii, 1995".

For pics that don't fit neatly into an album theme I'll group them by date, "Family pics 1995-1996" based on their quantity.

Then I'll print photobooks, adding info where possible about location, date, and people. Basically, recreating physical photo albums. I'll print 2-5 copies of each album, depending if I expect to send copies to other family members or not.

Having physically-printed photos works both as a last-ditch backup and as easy access for anyone to browse. I nostalgically remember spending time as a kid flipping through my parent's and grandparent's photo albums - sometimes with them, but many times on my own. I want to ensure my own kids can have the same experience.

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I ran all my old photos through a script that renamed them all based on the exif date. This made it way easier to organize.

I have a server at home with a 4tb drive shared out with Samba and of course sftp (xfs). There is a 2nd internal drive formatted with btrfs. Once a day the btrfs drive is mounted, drive 1 rsyncs to drive 2, and drive 2 creates a snapshot, then unmounts. Later that night, I run an borg backup and rsync (depending on sensitivity of data) to a time4vps (https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=1881&_ga=2.199835630.1135648...) 1TB storage server. Currently, that's enough for the stuff I want to backup.

We do something very similar. And we always print at least 3 copies and gift extras to family or friends that took the trip with us, or might like the book. It’s a nice gesture, but it also serves as insurance that if anything happens to our house we have the photo books spread out all over the place.

My photo organization is folders or albums named Year-Event or Year-Place, e.g. 2014-GrandmasFuneral, 2015-Berlin, or 2018-Kenya.