Organizing photo history from digitized kodachromes and old family B/W photos

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I have about 50,000 digitized kodachrom slides and old family B/W photos.  These photos have been imported and filed by date in folders in LRC.  what are the organizational steps to best utalize the strengths of both LR and LRC.

My main goal is to produce family slideshows and make available to my family using Apple TV.

My old folder arrangement withing LR is just not working.

[Conrad C]

Can you talk about why your folder arrangement in Lightroom Classic is not working? That could help figure out what to do next. Usually, folders organized by date is a very good starting point.

Are you going to use the Lightroom app for Apple TV? If so, then for that and Lightroom, you will want to organize slide shows using Collections in Lightroom Classic, which translate to Albums in Lightroom. To get a Collection to Lightroom and Apple TV, that Collection will need to be synced to the cloud from Lightroom Classic, which takes only one click in the Collections panel.

If you want to more flexibility in locating and organizing the photos, have you been using keywords in Lightroom Classic, especially for family names? That can help gather photos for a Collection. Unfortunately the keywords don’t sync to Lightroom.