I've been scanning all my old photos and photos from my family. We have family pictures dating back to the 1860s or so, then pictures taken by family from the 1890s on. So I am used to saving to my hard drive and sorting by date then family name or subject. I post them to my website so other family members can see them.
When I download from my camera, I sort by date (year-month-day) then in some cases add a note as to subject/place. Then there are sub-folders for the NEF and JPG pictures as well as those edited and downsized for the web. It makes it so much easier to store and sort over the hard copy pictures, but I do save the old ones in archival pages.
I'm getting to the point that I don't want to travel much anymore. The trip to the UK in 2019 was our "trip of a lifetime" but it wore me out. We'd planned a trip cross country to Seattle and Vancouver Island but that will wait until the Covid stuff is over and other family stuff is settled.
Sorry to hear bout your old Nikon. It's a major loss, even if film isn't easily found anymore.