Remove three year old backups from TC

How do I remove three year old backups from my time capsule?
I'm using my TC for multiple macs (2 * MacBookPro 2010 and 2014 and 1 * iMac 2011).
I can imagine that the first BUP is a full and the following are incremental and that there is some logic required if you want to restore (so far never required, because everything is working fine and now crash or what so ever), but still...
Can somebody explain to me how to clean up (very) old backup data from my TC?
Onno

TM is supposed to keep itself ok.
There is no need to manually delete updates.. although if you run out of room and TM cannot work out how to compact the backup it will throw up an error.
See Q12 here for deleting manually.. not advised.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Much better.. wipe the TC and start over.. then set size limits to the three sparsebundles so each is forced to control its disk usage.
Erase the TC is easy and quick from the airport utility.. you will see it in Q12
Setting sparsebundle sizes see A8 here http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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