Managing my photo collection from an iPad

I would like to manage my photo collection from an iPad. It sounds simple enough, but I keep hitting barriers every way I turn.
Here's the setup: I have about 150Gb of photos, so far too much to put on an iPad. Those are stored on a PC and available via Windows File Sharing.
The vision is for me to sit on the couch, flipping through photos, moving some to folders, deleting others as I go.
It sounds like a simple file management app will do the trick, but none I have tried are up to the task (and I have wasted money buying a number of them, why can't iOS do trial apps like Android?). They either do not support Windows File Share, or do not show a thumbnail of the pictures (I cannot open each photo to find out what in it).
I did try to sync a sub-set of photos to the iPad, but folders and changes I make do not get synced back to the PC. It might be called sync, but it is actually just a one way copy.
As well as moving photos around in the file structure I also want to do simply editing. Like rotating, cropping, that sort of thing. It seems the apps that do file management don't do editing and visa versa.
Things like photobooth will let me edit a photo, but it drops the result back into the photo stream instead of where it came from on the Windows machine. I can get the photo stream back to the PC, but it’s a pain as I then have to work out which directory to put it back into.
I find it incredible that tasks that are so simply on a laptop are so difficult on the iPad. The iPad seems ideal for this use.
Is there are app that will do this?

Photos that were originally synced from a computer can be copied off via third-party iPad apps such as Simple Transfer (which has a free lite version called Simple Photo & Video Transfer which you can try first), which can copy them off via your wifi network. But as photos are 'optimised' when they are synced to the iPad, any that you then copy back to a computer may not be exactly the same as they originally were on the computer.
Have you not got a backups of the originals on external drives ?

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