Exporting entire library to jpegs

I've been diagnosed with cancer a second time. Long hard battle ahead with chemo and then a stem cell transplant. Needless to say, getting a few things in order and looking at "legacy" decisions in the sense of what I am leaving my daughters by way of manageable digital content.
I am looking at my three Aperture libraries, around 150,000+ pics between the 3 of them. My family isn't into computers or Aperture, but they enjoy the pics. They don't really desire to learn Aperture or any other program. They simply want to "see" the pics or have access to them in a basic manner that they can understand.
I am wanting to export all pictures systematically to an external hard drive in jpeg format. I have my originals primarily photographed using RAW.
Is there a way to take an entire library and export all the pictures by project name to an external drive in jpeg format so that the project names are somehow transferred as a folder to the external drive? Not sure if I'm making sense with my question as chemo brain has gotten to me.
Here's what I did with my first library. It took many days and there weren't that many projects overall. Second library has many many projects.
I created on the drive folders that corresponded with the project name, since the project name describes the content. Then I would go from project to project, select all, then export to the corresponding folder. Wasn't too bad with the first library, second library is disheartening with the numerous projects, some with only 5-20 pics at a time. Third (current) library is enormous.
So can I somehow tell Aperture to export all projects in a library in jpeg format to a corresponding named structure on an external drive without having to manually create the individual folders (projects)?
Thanks for any insight.
-Robert

Thanks for the kind words and the response. I think I understand. Since this is a huge undertaking, I'm hoping to do this correctly in one attempt (if possible!).
I was studying this library just now. It has 965 projects. Crazy, right? I think this happened when I was migrating from iPhoto to Aperture and merged iPhoto into my existing library. I didn't know what I was doing and now can see that iPhoto had split every day on it's own. This then caused each day to be an individual project.
This library, as you can see from the two attached pics, is rather crazy and random. My newer library has a cleaner simpler structure that works for me.
Question for clarification:
- I am guessing on the left pane of Aperture, near the top, it shows the library name and has "projects, photos, faces, and places." My question is that I guess I would choose "projects" under this option (any other way to select all projects in one move?), then select all the projects, then use the export function as you indicated?
I'm questioning the wisdom of maintaining all the little individual projects that have just a date as a name from the iPhoto import/merge. I've attached two pics, one that shows the overall projects, then one that shows a project expanded with corresponding albums underneath.
I'm not sure I really used any folders technically speaking, just project names with albums underneath to subdivide.
Based on these pics, can you feedback with the best approach? I'm not sure I really want to maintain the "daily divisions" (dates of projects) that happened when I imported the old iPhoto library into this Aperture library. Not sure I have a choice unless I can maybe take the projects that are labeled as dates only and merge them into a large project or folder or album to simplify the structure.
Sorry this is a bit of a mess. I'm open to any and all ideas/suggestions.
Thanks for your help.

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