What to do with my legacy CD collection?


I am about to dive head first into Hi-Res Digital Audio streaming.  My current situation is complex, though.

I have 6,000 cds in my collection.  I am beginning a project to rip my favorites ~ 2,000 cds, which are mostly special editions, rare and collectible, to FLAC files and play them on my Innuos Zenith mk3 server and Qutest Dac using an ipad and Innuos Sense app as my UI.  

The whole rig will be backed up to a  2 drive Synology Nas using RAID 1 plus an icloud back-up.  

I will keep these as many are Mofi Gold, DCC gold, SACDs, DVD-Audio Disks in 5.1 surround, HDCD encoded, etc., to occaisionally play them on my Oppo 105 universal player where they sound marvelous.

That leaves me with 4,000 CDs leftover.  Most of them can be Hi-Res streamed via Quobuz or Tidal, both of which are native to my Innuos server.

Some of these are in original jewel cases (about 1,500) that I will sort through and keep, sell (haha), donate or toss.  

The remaing 2,500 are in binders without artwork.  I really don't know what to do with this group: keep as back-ups or toss.  Any suggestions?

I would appreciate any opinions or feedback on my plan, so far.

TIA!

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1. See if any local college radio stations want them. Donate and take a tax deduction. We have a couple who play jazz.

2. Ck local used CD & Lp shops . They buy.

3. Last resort sell on Craigs List, eBay etc.

Don't expect much money. Just shlepping them around is a big pain.

+1wsrrsw,

Donate over 2,3,4 years and take the max tax deduction each year. 

"Try and see if your local library wants them."

I don't know where you are, but my local library is going the other direction. They are rapidly thinning the collection because CDs don't get taken out much any more.

Like RichTruss I FLACed them to my NAS and ditched the jewel cases for those lined envelope things. They take up a lot less space than 3000 jewel cases! Having said that, since I kept out the SACDs to play anyway, I have started putting some favorite Redbooks back into jewel cases.

<Insert forehead slap here>

As with record albums I just like the physical aspect of going through the collection to pick something out.