An elderly relative died recently. He had been declining for several years and about 4 years ago reached the stage where he needed someone to be his attorney to manage his finances, health needs etc. He never wanted help and accepted it only extremely reluctantly (because he ran out of money for food, cigarettes etc), so his affairs (money, housekeeping etc) got very bad. There was no will, but a lot of possessions. Amongst things which need to be disposed of are heaps of photos. For 50 or 60 years, he has been taking photos of scenery or friends. Some of them are impressive works of art (such as two adult swans followed by about 12 babies swimming to somewhere). Measured by storage boxes, there may be 100 or 200 litres of them. Many are in albums, but most are in Snappy Snap envelopes now in the storage boxes. The only information written about most of them is the year in which they were taken (for instance, 1960) - no names or locations. My problem is that they need to be disposed of. A very good friend of his has gone through some of them and taken pictures where he or his family are in them. More will be offered at his wake in a week or two. But then what? There will be many pictures of people we don't know and places we don't know. I had an unworthy thought that I would send all they mystery photos to the Getty Museum and let them sort them out as to whether they are worthy to be kept or not but I recognise that as an unsuitable solution. I hate to throw away things of value -but valuable to whom?