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Oh yeah. You've got to weed out the good stuff from the bad. I took maybe 1-in-5 from my mom's far smaller collection of LPs.
The worst thing I ever did was buy my mom a printer. She would go through stacks of paper in a month, just printing out whatever she thought she wanted to remember on the internet and sticking it in filling cabinets. I refused to show her how to change out the toner at one point, and that's largely staunched the flow of dead trees.
Like all hobbies, you really need to find a community of other hobbyists before they're worth anything at all. Even a super-rare stamp has no value unless its got an actual buyer. And how many people even still care if you've got a Civil War double-stamped limited edition whateverthefuck anymore? Unless you're selling it straight to a museum, where are the buyers?
I do wonder whether I'll live to see people with these giant Magic: The Gathering card collections claiming value at six-figures plus when WotC has long since gone bust and nobody plays the game anymore.
My wife's cousin had a massive collection of Yu-Gi-Oh cards- we're talking like fill a suitcase massive- and they're basically worthless. He gave them all to our nephew about 10 years ago. He's 18 now so I have no idea what he'll do with them.