JD,
Your comment about having lots of disks to go through brought to mind a little program/app I have be using for years called Advanced Disk Catalog by an outfit named Ecomsoft Software.
Before the days of external hard drives and such I used to do regular backups to Cds- especially of CFS2 related stuff and all other downloads. I would name them YYMMDD-XX and so on. In any event, it got to the point where I had a lot of CDs. And even though I kept them neatly stored in a 3-ring binder filled with CD-sleeve pages, each holding 8 CDs, still there was no way to quickly located anything.
So, anyhow, one day I got fed up and went Googling for a programs that would catalog back-up Cds.
Ecomsofts' Advanced Disk Catalog popped up and the rest is history.
It has a one time basic licensing fee of $20 that over the years has been more than paid back.
You just start popping in CDs and ADC scans them (even into the zip files) and before you know it you have a easily searchable database that will quickly located anything you are looking for. You can also browse through the database.
Its been years since I actually scanned in any new back-up CDs but three or four times a year I still have occasion to do a search.
If you are interested here is the link:
Advanced Disk Catalog
Cheers,
MR