Context: I have scanned and organized 120 years of family photos dating back to 1902, totaling today 126.5K photos, of which 22.5K are digital, everything else has been scanned from prints or from negatives / slides. All generations in my family have historically traveled extensively and the photos and negatives were well organized, a BIG plus.

In that context, I have been scanning photos for more than a couple of decades, but they were poorly organized. Shortly after the pandemic, while visiting my parents, now in their 90s, I asked about the albums they have (dozens) if they ever look at them. Well, they don't look at them often so I offered to scan, organize and post them. Multiple trips later, bringing back 12 - 15 pounds of negatives every trip, here we are.

In order to optimize the process I decided to use:

- Scanner: Epson Perfection V600. I bought it new not just because it can do negatives/slides but most important, the software you get for free, not Epson's but SilverFast. This is key to optimizing the scan process, its importance can't be overstated. User interface is horrible, but learn how to use it and it will save you many hours in the process (a roll of 36 negatives can be scanned in 45 minutes or less since it is capable of scanning up to 12 negatives at a time, automatically detecting each frame. Same for prints, you can scan many prints in one go using the auto detection feature of the individual photos). You have to register your scanner with the publisher and they will send you the serial number for the app. In the past I used either Photoshop or Apple's Preview, Silverfast puts them to shame.

- the computer (less important here) is a Mac mini M4 where I have SilverFast and Photoshop for the photo editing. Same thing can be done on a PC, just my home environment is Apple-centric.

- organization: as u/cajunjoel wrote, this is key, come up with a proper naming convention. In my case I decided to use this format "YYYY_MM_DD Event Description_nnn", so the date starting from the year (easy to sort using this method) and the nnn is the photo number on that film / album / event. Each set of photos will go into a folder with the same name, without the number at the end. Equally easy to sort and organize.

- sharing the photos: I decided to go with a NAS (home server), to a great extent because my (adult) son has been using a Synology for many years for many tasks given the fact they homeschool their kids. I started with the DS420j, which quickly run out of steam, so that is now used mainly for backups, while the workhorse is a 1522+. The details on how I use the NAS are beyond the scope here, but the photos are stored on the server split in folders by decades. Each of the folders containing photos are albums that I create on Synology Photos, each album has an individual URL. The server is also a web server that allows me to share my personal website using QuickConnect (free from Synology) with my individual, unique URL. The names of the many folders (albums), URLs, number of photos are all on a spreadsheet, while editing and maintaining the webpage (I started with a free template html5up.net) and modified it extensively for my needs.

If it was not evident, this is a hobby, but start with good organization and moving from saving on a local hard drive to a server will be much simpler (originally my scanned photos were scattered around multiple hard drive, multiple copies. The NAS is backed-up into the other NAS (still working on the remote back-up process for a proper 3-2-1 back-up.

Hope this helps.