takes work to recondition things
Good : Get it to someone who will take it.
Better : Give it to someone who really wants it.
Best : Give it to someone who has an installation planned for it.
after all the work involved in picking up the item, handling it, storing it, figuring out what kind of reconditioning is needed, getting that planned and done, and then storing the item longer, it is still far from certain that any buyer will appear at any time in the next decade.
Professionally run businesses plan to "turn over" inventory frequently; they do not hold items on shelves. Turnover is measured in multiple times per year.
There is no successful business model predicated on the half-museum half-store concept, anywhere in the world. It is too far forward in an unforeseeable future to plan to make money by recuperating useful old things and reselling them. This is only slightly exaggerated; Goodwill type stores, junk stores, antique stores and the like, are not moneymakers when it comes to old appliances fixtures and stuff. If there were a market for these products, they would have already let it be known that they will collect these things. They don't.
Anyone who is certain they will install it. This is the best use. Because you are sure they won't go bankrupt handling your old stuff for ecological reasons. The kind of person who really really wants it may be a dreamer who you are feeding like giving an open bar to a future alcoholic. Only encourage realistic dreamers, that's what I say.
David