Im a curator for a history museum and my latest project idea I have is going to be taking 30 years of paper files and trying to digitize it all into a program that will let me look stuff up / organize / utilize in a way that will be beneficial to the museum environment. Is there anything out there that you guys know of that could help or any guidance on how I can create something like that?

Really just need to do the following tasks:

scan items like loan/gift receipts and look up receipts by name or item

be able to search topics like year or event and pull up information we have on it

Catalog book inventory for sales, inventory, etc

another big reason is to get rid of paper files, so scanning would be the preferred input method vs manually typing them in

any subs this is better fit lmk