It's easier to digitize your old photos than ever before.
First there were scanners and the price was right, about $100-$150.
Still scanning hundreds can be tedious. If you have thousands, it's just too much.
Now there are services to do all that scanning for you. You can mail them away, but who's really comfortable sending all their precious family photos to the mail, or even FedEx
Now, your neighborhood camera store can digitize 500 photos for about $50 thanks to new high end scanners from Kodak.
A Lifetime of Photos on a Single Disc
New Services Cheaply, Quickly Digitize Troves of Snapshots; Throwing Away the Shoebox