I found that negatives were often disappointing for some reason. Scanning good prints may work better for you. Did 2,500 with a negative scanner. It took ages,

I found that negatives were often disappointing for some reason. Scanning good prints may work better for you. Did 2,500 with a negative scanner. It took ages, mostly my wife. Then updated exif to roughly the right date. Loading them into Google photos they all fell into the dates given. I can scroll back to 1970! Don't worry I still have the originals.