Photos... And more photos

Ok, so I've been going through the piles of photo albums and boxes of photos and sorting them out. I have somewhere near 3500 sorted so far and another 1000 or so left to go through. Then the fun part begins. Trying to scan them all in because only a small number are scanned in so far. I can see me killing a scanner to do this job and that doesn't count the hundreds of rolls of negatives.