I have a massive 267GB yellow 'other' file in my memory. How can i find out what it is?

I am cleaning up my Mac and have gone through the usual processes of removing downloads, emptying trash and other usual cleaning up of unwanted files.  On my memory storage I have a massive yellow "other" usage of 267Gb but cannot find out what this consists of.  I have the usual music and photo files but how can I find out what this consists of?

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