How about saving them to a file, or a bunch of files, on your computer, then copying them onto a thumb drive to keep. Those PNY and Cruzer devices that plug into a USB port are capable of saving, clearly and permanently, hundreds or thousands of photos. You could even make up a file that you can type up saying what the photo is of, when, and who's in it. Save that to the same devices as well. Down the road, you can just insert the device into a computer, look at your pictures, and print off ones that you want--enlarged for framing, even. Up to you. Right now, on my computer, I've got about 25 separate files saved with pictures in them. After New Years, I'll save most of these to a PNY memory device, and start files for a new year. I'm not totally organized by any means, but I'm keeping a lot better track of my pictures now than when I had regular photo albums.
Let me relate a true incident about pictures. A number of years ago, I had copied at my own expense, some of the early photos stored in the files of the Historical society of the town in which I grew up. A couple of years ago, I scanned and copied these to my computer, then enlarged and labelled a bunch of 8 by 10 photos. I gave these to the society, and wrote on each one exactly what they were of. These folks, mostly newcomers to the town as i knew it, were very grateful. One old timer still around, who knew me when I was a kid, said that the society had a couple of thousand photos in their files, and over half were worthless, because nobody ever labelled who the people or places depicted are. Sad to say, nobody is left alive to answer these questions either. That made an impression on me, and now more than ever I take care to somehow label every photo with who is in them at least.
