Hi OP. I understand you not wanting to keep these photos as they mean nothing to you but I’d just ask you to view them as heirlooms rather than the ‘clutter’ they are seeming to be at the moment. The fact they’re in albums is great - at least they are contained.
The fact you’re talking about them being your father’s grandparents (and assuming there are therefore photos of his parents) - that means you have images of YOUR Great Grandparents in there. That is fantastic.
Family history might not be your thing but I would strongly advise you not to chuck without at least doing the following.
What was your father’s surname and do you know the surname of his Mother before she married (this will be your Grandmother)
While you might not be able to put a name to the people in the photos it might be possible to work out who they are by the groupings. For example - your Dad’s Dad (Grandfather) might have been one of 5 brothers. A photo of 5 young lads together in the album could then be identified. You can glean info by looking at census records.
Do you have ANYONE in your family that might be up for a bit of detective work even if it is of no interest to you? A younger relative doing history, a friend of the family even? Someone who you can say to ‘right my Dad’s name was Mr x, his Mum’s name was Miss Y before marriage, they lived in Z city/Town - knock yourself out and see what you can find out and then see if that helps identify some of these people. What were their occupations (are there photos of them at work that might be of interest to a social historian or a Local Family History Society?) did they fight in the wars etc. So many questions! Other people might love having a project like this to research if they’re stuck at home.
And if you’ve no takers for that, can I suggest another thing you might try is to put a post on this section of Rootschat. Rootschat is a FREE family history site and is a goldmine for family historians. They have a section just for this sort of thing www.rootschat.com/forum/unwanted-certificates/
The link says ‘unwanted certificates’ but also in that area, are postings of unwanted photographic heirlooms, old unwanted photos and albums etc... The very thing in your possession.
If you want to put a post on there saying ‘X family’s album - surnames featured and a geographical location - free to whoever wants it - you might get interest. You might even find a distant relative.
This might seem a bit of a faff but let me tell you why I’m so keen these photos don’t end up in the skip. I’ve been researching my family history off and on for 20 years. Just 2 weeks ago I spotted a new match for my family tree on Ancestry. This means someone else had family members that were the same as my family members on their tree, it was a distant match going back to mid 1800s but when I clicked on their tree they had a photo of a woman under our shared Great Great Great Grandmother. I was a bit suspicious because she was born in 1812 and I’d never seen any photos this old. Plus this tree was of someone in Canada and it said this Gt x 3 grandmother had died in Canada. We have no Canadian connections as far as I knew and all my relatives and ancestors tended to have been born, bred and died within 20 miles of an English industrial city.
Well it turns out that this intrepid ancestor had been shipped over to Canada in the late 1800s as a 70 year old widow and had carried the family bible with her. And obviously some precious photographs. And these has been lovingly cherished (Or stuck in various shoeboxes or drawers!) over 3 or 4 generations. Until one day a VERY grateful descendant got to see a photo some 150 years later via the wonders of the internet. I was so utterly amazed and moved.
So please, don’t chuck them. If you haven’t the time or inclination to do any of the above send me a Direct Message and maybe I can think of something else. I actually have a wierd hobby of collecting ‘found’ photographs. I find them utterly fascinating.