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The Internet Archive will accept them. They will be scanned and provided to the world for free as part of their library collection. If you’re in the US, it will be very inexpensive to ship them via media mail. https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat... https://youtu.be/RV_ALlJGU_c
How do they deal with copyrighted material?
Do you have a link to the catalog? Without knowing more about them it's impossible to suggest anything.
In my electrical and computer engineering university, I volunteered at the department's library. Retiring professors were our biggest source of books (there was no allocated budget, so we could not buy new stock and relied on donations). When we did the weeding to accept only the useful stuff, we separated the "rejects" into a request-only section in the basement and the rest we left outside in the hallway for free g…
If you can't sell them, give them away.
I think the best thing you can do with English books, no matter what discipline, is to let them travel abroad. I'm Ukrainian and all the science books I can buy have shitty translations. I once bought 20 used books from Amazon and spent $20 on the books, $70 on Amazon shipping, and $110 on air shipping to Ukraine. I don't know how to get English books from abroad cheaper, but at least it was worth it.
Given the situation in Ukraine right now, this might be a bad time to ask… But I bet if you were to post the address of a local library here (with their permission) you might get quite a few folks willing to pay shipping to send some gifts over.
If talking about sending these to me not to library, I do not want anybody to pay for that, also I can pay in crypto or card for some specific books I appreciate and for post inside US. My preferred fields are cryptography, probability theory / statistics, game theory, and anything about old / obsoleted programming langs: Cobol, Fortran, Perl, also compiler design. Moderately desired is anything about electronic design and signal processing. Absolutely super desired is Turing Omnibus, GEB, TAPL and anything about Lisp.