Email server and password vault This is something that should be a physical object in your own home. And it should be only that (ok, maybe include a notes and calendar app but keep it simple, stupid)
Sell or donate for parts. If you don't have a use for it, someone likely does and it's better than landfill.
Install a Linux Distro. Connect to external monitor, plug power into wall.
Use it for a dedicated torrenting machine or use it as a test machine for whatever you like. If you kill it, whatever.
Otherwise I would just take that SSD out and recycle the machine.
I usually just harvest usable parts like the hard drive and camera and call it a day.
Alternatively, if you're able to plug an external monitor in and get it to work for setup, you could install some sort of Linux distro on it and run it headless for lots of different purposes.
Camera?
Like a Webcam camera? What's the use case? Can you map the pins to a SPC like a raspi or ardrino?
Yeah it's relatively easy to reuse most webcam cameras, you just have to get them connected to a USB cable, then most computers will immediately recognize them as cameras.
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