Can my wife and I share when we have separate Apple IDs

My wife and I have seperate Apple IDs for our Macs and iPhones. We now have a couple Apple TVs and we are trying to sort out the best way to setup so we can see each of our content from iCloud and also to watch moves, play music from whatever of our accounts we purchased.
It is totally confusing and not intuitive how best to do this. Does anyone have a best practice.
My in-laws just use one Apple ID for everything but that doesn't work for us as we consume too much content and I don't always want to see what Apple my wife buys, etc.
Also, between the 2 of us and our daughter. we have 3 Macbooks, 3 iPhones, 3, iPads and iPod and 2 Apple TV's. Is seems like Apple limits us to 5 devices. Clearly, we are good customers! Any advice anyone?

There are two settings on the Apple TV that will interest you.
Settings > iTunes Store > Apple ID's.
Here you can set up both your accounts and once both are set up you can use this option to switch between them. Switching your ID for the iTunes store will change the content in the movies, TV shows and music apps on the Apple TV.
Settings > iCloud.
Here you can log out of your Apple ID and into another one. Note this is not as convenient as being able two switch as above. Changing your ID for iCloud will change the photos in photo stream.
Note: disabling photostream and re-enabling it will result in any photos that are currently in the photostream album on your device, that are older than 30 days old, not being added back.

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