How can I limit acces to files on drives attached to my Time Capsule?

My home network is set up with a 1TB Time capsule and several attached USB hard drives.  On those drives I've got a bunch of movies, tv shows, home videos, music, pics etc. that I either stream or transfer to my various devices for viewing/listening.  My wife and I have recently become the permanent guardians of my 13 year old neice and she'd like to have access to some of the media.  In general I have no problem with this, but there are movies and cable tv programs that aren't appropriate for a 13 year old.  Is there a way to give her access to some, but not all of the files on the drives attached to the Time Capsule?  I'm thinking perhaps creating a "Rated R" folder and password protecting, or somehow having the Time Capsule look at which user is attempting to access certain files and either granting or preventing access.  She's using my old G4 tower running 10.6 and will be viewing these videos on either that machine or an iPod Classic, or perhaps a Touch if Santa comes through . . .  and her grades are good. 
Thanks,
Adam

Thanks for clarifying that you are using Time Machine and iPhoto in regard to your questions.
There are a number of other applications that will back up your Mac to the Time Capsule.....Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper and Chronosync to name just a few. That is why we were asking for more information.
As far as Time Machine and iPhoto are concerned, it is unfortunate that a few years ago,  Apple removed the feature which would allow you to "browse" the images in your Time Machine backups in the iPhoto Library. If you want to restore any images from your Time Machine backups, you must restore the entire iPhoto Library then use iPhoto to view the images that you want.
You can get a good idea of whether your iPhoto Library backups are good by comparing the size of the iPhoto Library in your Pictures folder to the size of the iPhoto Library in your Time Machine backups.  If the size is the same, then you know that everything is being backed up by Time Machine.
To do this, click the "smiley face" Finder icon at the lower left of the Mac's screen on the dock
Open the Pictures folder
Click once on the iPhoto Library to highlight it
Click the "gear" icon at the top of the window
Click Get Info
Note the size of the iPhoto Library
Now open Time Machine and choose a date from the past from the timeline on the right side of the screen.
Navigate to the iPhoto Library in the Pictures folder
Double click the iPhoto Library and note the size of the library
If the library is being backed up, the size of the library on your Mac and in the Time Machine backups will be the same.

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