My father shot thousands of slides when we lived in Nigeria in the mid 70's. He still has them, but I have started scanning them myself with Pentax DSLR, and macro bellows with slide copying attachment. It been pretty fun--I was 5-6 at during this time, so some of it lines up with my oldest memories. I've found that the Kodachrome slides have have held up much better than the other (mostly Ektachrome) slides. The colors on the Kodachrome look like they were shot yesterday.

My father also has a bunch of super 8 shot by his parents, but I really don't have anything to convert those well, so he sent them off for conversion. Among other things it includes footage of mygrandparents vacationing in Cuba before the revolution.