Hey there, I know the struggle of making a good-looking photo album. Honestly, the idea of making photo albums is crossing my mind every time an important event happens in our family. Yet, I do realize that there is a tone of photos nobody is looking at. So I'd better make a photobook. It's quite expensive, and takes a lot of time to arrange all pictures, but at least it's going to take less space. As for the best pictures, I print them on glass or wood ( frameshop.com.au ) and place them in the hall and kids' room.
I don't use photo albums for such a long period of time. Now I keep all my photos on my Google Drive account. It is a lot more comfortable and also easy to stock photos using this method. But I have some albums at home. I have them from my mother. There we have all the photos of the youth of my parents and my childhood. I like time to time to look through that albums. Once I even got all the photos and went to a photo restoration service. Some of the photos were destroyed by time, and I didn't want to lose them, so I reconditioned them.