MASSIVE archive help

[Jennie38817622g885]

I work with a summer camp that's been around for 25 years.  There are over 250k images in the catalog.  I've assigned facial rec to thousands and thousands of kids.  I've been asked to do the same thing for a huge camp that handles 70 individual camps at their facility  They want to go back and archive probably 500-1,000,000 images and import from the hundreds of discs, photo folders, slides and negatives.  I would bet it's over 20TB of info.  HELP!  

I will be assigning keywords etc....(tears, hugs, rock climbing, awards, etc...) but do I make a catalog for each camp or a folder for each camp within one catalog?  

ALSO I access the drive thru VPN at times when away from office.  So it can already be a little slow.  

Any advice is appreciated!

[kglad]

are you asking about an adobe app?

[Jennie38817622g885]

Hello.  Sorry!  Wasn't specific.  Do you all think Lightroom can handle that many photos in a catalog?  The company will have a crazy computer for me, but is Lightroom the way to help them access this archive of 50 years of children?  I will be importing slides, prints, etc.... and will try to add the dates manually (what year they were taken), but not sure if lightroom is the right platform to do this for them?  

[kglad]

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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