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If you do a spreadsheet, you can insert a link in a column to photos of each item which would help the uninitiated or novice in identification of individual items. Tagging items is useful as well.
In a sense it is like a box of old and valuable gun parts. Most of the value of the parts lies in their identification and labeling. Otherwise, they are scrap unless the person looking sees the value via knowledge of that at which he is looking at.