>> Several stand alone hard drives and extras sent to my widely dispersed family.
LOL, look dear, wbarmy just sent us another 2 pounds of hard disks... at least we’re no longer getting those 8” floppies.
If you’re geeky enough, you should setup a personal media server like Plex or Emby. And they will cast to Smart TVs and personals with the appropriate optimizations. Good for the widely dispersed, private family ;)
Sorry, we travel a lot and the kids want all of the photographs, and it ain’t two pounds, you can pt a lot on a small thumb drive these days.
And a personal server means the photographs still travel to somebody else’s server over the internet.
I promised the children they would have all of the childhood and family photos and documents. It doesn’t mean a whole lot to them right now, but when they are my age and start looking at all of the media, I am sure they will appreciate it. I certainly did when I got all of my families old photographs and films.