Wow!
To have such treasure...well, for starters I would start a scrapbook of these quilts that has pictures, the story as you know it of these quilts, pictures of hand quilting, how you came to own them, when or where or why they were made, etc...then I would start to document your journey on decicing to either keep them or donate to a musuem. Then the final ending to where/ what musuem or to whom they end up.
Jot down your feelings and thoughts on this.
I think this is just to cool and would be an experiance alot of people would like to hear about.
kirsten