The digital age doesn’t help the problem of lost photos….it makes it worse.
One man’s ‘improve’ is another man’s Fake. Unless you live in a matchbox the space your average families photos take up is not an issue.
I say again. No one is ever going to find your old photos in a box when you’ve gone. They are on that broken hard drive, or discarded computer that won’t boot, or on that remote hosting website that nobody knows about, or has your password for, if they did.

Not at all,unless you just deliberately discard the hard drives etc without backing things up incase they go wrong.If you spend alot of time and effort transferring stuff then i would guess you do multiple copies and label them as best as is possible.You can buy 32 gb memory card for a few pounds so no excuses really.Regarding fakes– the majority of people do NOT fake photos taken from the family albums.Keeping old photos may not be of interest to you or a few others of this present generation but just look at the interest that occurred when you had the WW1 100 years ,the BoB 75 years ,people were tracing their family trees and service records.This is for future generations as well,not just ours.