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One "strange" use of old laptops seems to be to use them as NAS boxes. Either just as NAS test benches or as a real NAS with a couple of big USB drives hanging from the USB ports. Just serving files on a network is pretty low-intensive work. Suitable for end-of-life hardware.
OMV (Open MediaVault, Debian with a web GUI for NAS services) is able to convert a very modest old box into a usable NAS.
I prefer to use tiny single board ARM computers, SBCs, as OMV NAS boxes. With huge HDDs. 2GB Odroid HC2s. Store and stream media, backup clients and run IoT stuff. They replaced my venerable 4 bay Synology 411j NAS.
One single Odroid HC2 with a 12 TB HDD was enough to replace the Synology NAS that had 4x4 TB HDDs. And with much better performance.
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