My iMac 3.4ghz Intel Core i7 is beyond lethargic. How can I clean it up or something?

I have 4GB RAM, 1 Tbyte HD and 2 2T backup external drives (one USB and one Firewire connected.) I recently moved from Comcast (34 gb download speed to U-Verse at 17-18 Gb. The internet speed may be noticeable, but I notice the sluggishness when I'm not doing anything online.
IPhoto seems like it slows things down. I have 20,000 photos and 10,000 songs stored. In my 1 T HD, I'm using less than half.
Sometimes when I wake it up, it will take 20 plus seconds to wake up.
I have not called AppleCare yet.
Any ideas?

Thanks again for your help.
I read through the process of exporting photos and songs to an external drive. I don't have time to study it more tonight (you are up late, if that is a Massachusetts address.) But, I will look again.
I also scanned the article on uninstalling MacKeeper. I'm pretty sure I didn't let it encrypt. But, it still looks like a time-consuming process. I'll look at that again.
I usually have the following open:
      Mail
     Word
     Excel
     Safari (including Pandora, often)
     iCal
     iTunes
     Activity Monitor
     Canon printer driver
And often:
     iPhoto
     Address book
And when my grandsons are here, they load Roblox and go pretty deep. When they leave, I exit Roblox.

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