You need to figure out how you are going to approach them. I ran into the same dilemma. I divided them into groups such as child 1, child 2, my life, parents, friends, ancestors. You may also want to do a separate album for special life events such as wedding, special vacation, etc. (I have one dedicated to concerts that I have photographed.) I started with child 1 and sorted them into years 0-1 yr, 1-2, etc then sorted those into specific events. when you get that far, pick the best of them or the ones you can't live without and scrap those. The sorting was the hardest part for me. The second hardest part was being creative. The movies I would have pt on CD and slides can either be printed or converted to CD. Hope this helps