Physical pictures

Hi everyone! I have probably 300 to 400 physical pictures of many different sizes from when my family members passed away.
I would like to digitalize these to preserve them but I am not sure that if I scan them with my regular printer if it will be the highest quality or save in the correct format.
Can anyone help shed some light?

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Cloud storage in 2 locations (i.e. - onedrive, google drive) and two hard storage (flash drive, hard drive etc..)

Depending on the printer you can choose the quality of the scan. You can look up the specs for the printer and see the quality of the scans.

Also you can test it out with one photo.. scan it and print it on photo paper. If you're happy with the quality youre good to go..

Im not too familiar with the best file type.. i have seen large databases use tiff format tho..