Maybe your daughter can help? She will likely be the one who wants the photo's right? We had the same situation. My parents had TONS of pictures and slides. My dad was an amateur photographer. She took all the pictures of our school years and put them in an album, not "scrapbooking" just a regular album and gave each of us those. They did have the slides transffered to video, which was AWESOME. Now I will need to get those transferred to DVD. I think NJ QUILTER has it right.
"My recommendation would be to minimally sort your photos into various categories...family; vacations; special events; whatever fits your life. As you are going through that process, toss out the bad photos that we have all been convinced we need to keep. You know, heads chopped off; big old blobs of flash. Just toss them."