In reply to Bob M:
I use Lightroom for titillating my images however I mostly use it for adding tags to my images. I know that Lightroom is a powerful tool but I mainly use it for the task of Tags.
About 4-5 years ago I was off work with an injury and had a shed load of time on my hands. I also had 40,000 images on my hard drive. The images were and still are kept in folders for each year. Inside each annual folder is a folder for that day with a subject title and date. An example would be "Bouldering at bla-bla 22-4-20"
This is a great idea as long as you remember where you were and what year you did the activity.
I decided to go through all 40,000 images and delete those that I no longer needed. Of the images that I kept, I assigned multiple tags to each and every image that would describe it. This ranged from a couple of descriptive words to quite possibly twenty or thirty words.
It was a long and laborious task, and one which was worth the effort. Now if I want to find a group of files, all I have to do is ask Lightroom to look for images with the descriptive words that I want such as my name, an activity and a location. After a few moments, I am presented with images that I had forgotten about and all relating to what I wanted to see.
The best bit is that the Tags are baked into the JPEG, DGN or RAW files and if I move away from Lightroom, for what ever reason then I only need an app that can sort and read Tags for all my images.
I have happily pared down my collection to 30,000 images that never see the light of day and are hidden away on my hard drive.