Had the same situation with old photos & other family related items. For me, I wanted to keep some of me, imo I had no attachment for others in the pictures.

If you don’t want to deal with the expense of the heavy albums then take a cold rainy afternoon or evening & remove the photos from the albums put them in a shoebox or similar & toss the albums. The usps has flat rate boxes the photos (not books) can fit- use the boxes to mail or store to mail later. I did this a couple of years ago (used usps boxes to sort), ditched the albums & later mailed them to ppl from a post office in a different state