What do you do with the photos you take?

I’m an amateur at best. I use moderately expensive gear. I’m a scientist (specializing in microscopic imaging techniques), so I guess that’s where my interests come from. I really enjoy taking a wide variety of photos - mostly experimenting with different lenses and filters and exposure and apertures etc with minimal postprocessing. Some of them tell a story, some of them are cool shots of really random things, some of them are landscape photography, while some are specific to a place. Many are also portraits of friends.

I have been doing this for over 10 years now ever since grad school and I really enjoy this hobby. I used to put up photos on Instagram for my friends to comment on (Flickr too but didn’t really have the clout or energy to continue on that). Now that I’ve removed myself from social media entirely, I’ve just been accumulating photos - many of which my wife has printed out and put up in frames.

What do you suggest I do with these photos? Are there any avenues where I can put them up for exhibition? Put them up for copyrighted reuse, but not giving them up as fodder for training AI? Any thoughts?