Share my iTunes on all my IOS devices from an external hard-drive

I have put my full iTunes library on an external hard-drive (2TB Lacie, USB connection only).
I`m doing this because my music library is geting to large now that i digitalized all my cd`s and starting to do the same for my vynil.
How can I listen to this library on all my IOS devises?
Can I create an wireless network for my iTunes in my house as not to connect (with the cable) to my hard-drive each time?
Is it possible with the hardware I have or do I need to look for other devices?
Much appreciate the information you could share and give

Hard to tell exactly why it has happened without knowing what actions you took, but I would suspect you added to the library when it shouldn't have been necessary.
Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created.  If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning
to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
Or you could redo the migration in a way that works. See Re: Moving itunes library from desktop computer to laptop for example.
tt2

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