How to deal with huge old stockpile of footage ala "Mr. Brainwash"??

Total newbie who is feeling a little stuck, and could really use some help dealing with a "video hoarding paralysis"...
Here's what I've got: about 250gb of clips, covering a span of 5 years and a dozen main projects.
I did all of the original uploading to iMovie on an old MBP, and made some quick youtube videos with some of the stuff.
I now have all those iMovie events and projects on an external HD, with a new(er) 2012 iMac, and considering what to do next.
=> Possibly migrate over here to FCP, and start working with somebody more skilled with the editing process, towards a final cut or short series of edits, featuring all my past work. A showreel sort of thing.
For those who have seen the film, I guess its similar to Thierry Guetta aka "Mr Brainwash" in Exit Through The Giftshop-- the way he kept stockpiling years of footage of street artists (then just sitting on it)... until Banksy came along and patched it together for the full-length documentary.
Anyways, I'm looking for help/suggestions/anything to get going on this. I'd like to try and clean up all my clips and get them well-organized, or in a presentable enough state, to then share with a skilled editor and eventually do something more professional with it.
Suggestions on where to begin would be really helpful right now. Thanks for reading.

may be a bit abstract what I'm telling now… but I try anyhow:
• when you import from a SDcard (or back-up of a SDcard) you can select what to import, what not; for 'files' FCPX doesn't give this option, you have to use this handy tool
http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/VirtualCameraCard.dmg
which 'converts' files into 'cameras' …
Hint #1 => if you know what to keep and what not, import smart!
• use paper&pencil: What in the end should the final project look like? What highlights? What makes a clip special, that is allowed to be part of that Project? Write down criteria.
Hint #2 => work backwards, from final project to keywords
• in FCPX you can apply keywords to a clip, part of a clip, several keywords for one clip, overlapping 'zones' of keywords;
Hint #3 => don't think in shallow 'drawers' (one clip = jst one folder; tags are much smarter)
• then, FCPX creates automatically 'playlists' - if one of your keywords is 'Interviews', click on corresponding playlist - tadahh!
Hint #3 => learn to use FCPX mighty 'data-base features', invest 20$ into Lessons for FCPX << link to AppStore
• FCPX allows to create smart-lists - combine criteria, e.g. "outdoor + interviews" to filter clips.
HInt #3 => no need to organize manually; FCPX is faster than you
So, it's all about organizing the clips; here, pro Michael Graber explains his sorting schemes
http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/1436-log-like-a-ninja-in-final-cut-pro -x-with-michael-garber
… and 250 GBs isn' that much

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