What is the best to move from modern into vintage?

[wdwfan]

This will probably be long, so please bare with me. Thanks.

I've been contemplating getting rid of the majority of my newer stuff and moving into vintage for some time as I really like the vintage and the fact it's less volatile than newer/modern stuff.

What I've done so far is to pull all of the inserts, base, RCs, refractors, etc. of Hall of Famers and guys I think will end up in the HOF. I've also pulled the same cards for a few stars (like Bryant/Trout/Posey/Miggy in baseball and AP/quarterbacks/Watt in football) to set aside.

I'm not going to stop opening wax. But I will only be opening about a blaster per month now instead of a hobby box or 2 every month. I just feel like it's a waste of money to open boxes, and there's more value in taking most of that money and picking up a few vintage singles.

As I continue to open wax here or there, I'll pull the players I mentioned above and put them in with their player lots and then work to get rid of the rest. My question is, what's the best way to get rid of the rest?

I've found a few people that will trade their vintage for my newer. But there hasn't been many. In fact, in the few months I've been here, I've only found a handful of people that are willing to trade with me at all. When I find someone, most want to trade vintage for vintage only, which is understandable. But that's left me with lots and lots of newer stuff to move in order to get vintage.

Is it best to sort everything into team lots and sell the team lots for a few bucks?
Or pull all the, say, 2017 Topps (base, parallels, inserts, SPs, RCs) and sell them by brand?
Or throw everything in the trash and start over?
Or just put all the new into the closet and start with vintage?
I'm hoping to either trade newer for vintage or to sell the newer and use the money to buy vintage.

I don't have much in the way of newer stuff. For example, I only have about 4-5 4-row boxes of baseball and about 2-1/2 of football. But the majority of it is from 2016-17 and all of it is from 2005 to now. So, it's not junk era commons.

As I said, I will still keep a few newer cards (HOFers, future HOFers, some stars), but I want to get rid of the rest. Just looking for some advice.

Thanks for reading this through, and any help is appreciated.