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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SW-User

What scanner are you using? As another poster suggested, save in TIFF format. Another option is the PNG format. You can get very close to lossless while having some compression to save space. I have a scanner, and it can scan to 1440 dpi I think, but rarely go above 300 dpi as the amount of digital space it takes is very taxing. I do scan at a higher resolution sometimes if I want to edit and restore some parts but then reduce the resolution to 300 dpi after to preserve hard drive space.