I was just having this conversation again last night with a good friend who is also a photographer.
I live in a retirement community in AZ. As a older retiree who has talked with others like me and my kids about this and related issues, the key word you use is edited. My family members, and a lot of others like me, don't want to have to learn programs like Lightroom in order to have access to my photos. We could argue that they don't even want all the photos that I consider "good" (think birds in flight) but they do want access to the family photos. Now, this is not to say that some surviving family member wants to continue on with LR and the digital experience, but that is a rare person, imo.
So what I and others like me have done or will do is to take the "good" images that I have and store them off line on a hard drive; not a backup, but a family archive. In my case, they only need to be edited jpegs. Space is not an issue, but organization is. In addition, I am going to start to make more prints - probably just simple books, as loose prints are harder for folks to deal with.