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If your ebook collection only resides within the reader then whoever gets your reader has the ebooks.
As for DRM - once the ebooks have been authorized on your reader again - whoever get the reader gets the ebooks.
If something should happen to the reader and you lose the internal data then you lose access to all DRM material unless the account is still in place on the internet and you know the access user id, password and in some cases the Credit Card Number used to create or purchase the ebooks. So as long as your inheritor knows your user id, email account and password I believe DRM such as ADE should continue to work. It is only required for giving a device permission via the ADE software.
So even if you archive all your DRM and non DRM ebooks to a DVD - the Non drm should be able to be used by anyone providing the reader supports the format. The DRM ebooks would have to go through their respective authentication process before they could be accessed. For ADE that would require the ADE software installed on a PC using the correct userid and password of the original account and then the ereader device would have to be connected to the PC via USB and authorized by the ADE app (not all devices use ADE) and then yiou would have to migrate the reloaded ADE ePud ebooks to the external reader via ADE. As long as there is no biometrics involved this should work.
I used ADE as an example - this is probably the same for other DRM products that are standalone.
As for Amazon and the Kindle - this is probably not the same unless you have a joint account - Most kindle books purchased from Amazon are tied into that account - can that account be passed on to another family member - I don't know.
As some others have stated - some DRM can be removed from some ebooks in which case they can be archived on external media left to anyone they want.
These are just my opinions.
John
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