Honestly I think burkphoto is right, you do not want to destroy these albums They are irreplaceable and you don't want to be the idiot that destroyed them. My approach would be to reproduce the album full size scans and delivered as a photobook. You may be better to get the book created professionally. It depends on the album as to if it can be unbound look for a company that can do the work find out the price and then see about splitting it 4 ways presumably your wife also wants a copy.

Once you have the book produced and printed and also keeping an electronic copy then maybe you might go ahead and see if the photo's can be removed skillfully and safely. It is quite likely that you will be disappointed there is almost certain to be some fading which will clearly be seen where the photo's were overlapped and probably some residue and possibly tearing when the pages get separated.

With the quote you should be able to split it into printing and binding of your electronic files and a cost for acquiring the image files in the first place. Just getting the quote should concentrate the minds of the three brothers wanting the albums is one thing paying for them could be another, although if they are getting something from the estate then perhaps they will not see it as a real cost to them.



I hope you havent done too much damage so far, if you are stuck for finding pro's to quote and do the job. It might be worth approaching a museum they will probably know people who restore and conserve books and albums. Making new books is not that expensive. There are print on demand companies all over.