What do you mean put them to use?

In terms of file organization I just put everything into folders. I typically have two levels. First level is a broad categorization like Trips, Family, Friends, Events, etc. the subfolders inside are then more specific related to the events followed by a year date. So for example Anniversary 2023, Graduation 2010. I do it this way because when I wanna find stuff, I usually remember what it was, not the year I took it. That’s why I don’t do the date first.

I’ve digitized many old film negatives too and those I do differently. Because they’re my dad’s photos, and each roll had a mix of different subjects and locations, I just did one folder per roll since I process them all together. For those I do date first, followed by several key words for the different subject matter.

You could organize these in a Lightroom catalog and tag photos but I don’t want to tie myself to any particular company or software. I would also not solely rely on cloud backups since Google has corrupted and lost my images before. I do use it but just for casual phone photos.