You can buy inexpensive, sturdy boxes just for this purpose at many department stores. Better than that, however, is to invest in an archival quality box which will help preserve your stored photos. If you have lots of photos, you may want to have separate boxes for each person or branch of the family. Now that your photos are more manageable, pick out the best ones and begin captioning them. Choose photos with high interest, where people are doing something or there are objects of interest in the background.
Captions can be long or short.
A short example is shown here. Just this short caption has made this photo more valuable for our family. Longer captions can tell a whole story. Snapshops that had previously been glanced over in an album or box now take on new meaning. Special photos become even more special when the pictures' stories are revealed.