Are they worth keeping or giving away if their condition is essentially unknown but probably far from "mint" for most of them, and is also probably dependent on the equipment on which they might be played? I'm sure none of them are "mint" condition.

When I left my ex the collection was locked in a storage unit that I could not get to. 5 years later he has recently returned them to me. I live in a very small house with little storage. The 2 long crates are now sitting in my kitchen, and I either have to get rid of them, or get rid of other stuff to be able to store them. (My 18 y.o. son wants me to keep them for him, btw, and that figures into the equation, but is not the primary factor.)


200-250 LPs, a very eclectic collection that includes all the LP's my parents owned, dating back to the late 1950's when they bought our first stereo system. Some folk, but not a lot. Would take a lot of research that I don't have time or inclination to do to figure out what might be currently unavailable as remastered CD's (or even what is worth hanging onto to insure it is still available, even if on a noisy LP if it hasn't been remastered and released in a more post-modern format.)

I suspect the collection includes a lot of "trash" i.e. readily available on CD, and if not, not worth preserving, and a few "treasures." Because the collection includes so many genres and covers so many years there is much here that I have no idea whether to value or not. By value, I mean worth hanging onto or finding good homes for in order to preserve.   I'm guessing there are a few, but not many albums in the collection that have some monetary value beyond the postage to send them to a buyer.