What to do with a bunch of tapes?

Hi!
I have some DV tapes originating from Super-8, VHS, Hi8, and DV footage. Instead of spending endless hours viewing these to decide what to keep and what to discard, I am thinking of capturing them all into my 1 TB disc. I have calculated it to be around 500-600 GB. Having them online would make it much easier to get an overview of what I actually have.
How do you advice me to organize them? One large project with all reels or one project per reel or what?
Some of the native DVs unfortunately have some timecode breaks with the timecode reset to zero, which will treat the next part as a new reel. I guess I just have to live with that, or do you have any advices on that?
I have Final Cut Express 3.5.1 HD.
-- Johnny

Well, my ultimate goal is to have the footage handy accessible to be able to use them in various projects. Most of them are documentation of various events over many years and those parts could be edited into small movies with little effort. The resulting small movies could then act as photo albums do. You every now and then take a look at parts of them. As a side effect I will get backup of the tapes and disc is rather cheap today. I also hate slow sequential media when it comes to accessing them.
An other thing is while browsing them quickly I imagine ideas for use in a storytelling fashion will show up.
-- Johnny

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