You're thinking about this from a technical perspective, but the tech is the easy part. The content, and therefore structure and logical chunking of the metadat

You're thinking about this from a technical perspective, but the tech is the easy part. The content, and therefore structure and logical chunking of the metadata, is far more consequential than the number of images. I've seen people in academic environments pour tens of thousands of post-doc-hours into cataloging a few thousand images: https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/ https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/