Ran out of storage space

Recently ran out of storage space on my laptop, where I have been storing all music/videos purchased from iTunes. The music library points to a location in the hard disc of the laptop. Now that I have no more space on the internal hard disc I acquired an external 250 GB disc. What's the best way to move forward with iTunes? I don't really know what to do.
1. Should I copy all existing music/videos to the external drive?
2. Should I point the library to the new location on the external drive?
3. Should I delete all existing music/videos from internal storage and leave them on the external drive?
4. How to avoid double entries of each song/video?
Thanks for your help.

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