I have about 134 home movies too. And yes, it was a bear when I initially converted them to modern digital files.
I tag them with tools like MetaX, MetaZ, etc so that they have nice little descriptions of their content. For me, a date... or a date and filename would not be enough to know which one had a nephew in his school play, or the daugther's better sporting events, etc.
So going to the trouble of tagging them yields DVD-like descriptions and poster art of each. Tagging them as "TV Shows" makes it easy to organize them by year in

TV listings. If I want to see a kids 3rd birthday, I can go to the appropriate year; their 4th birthday video is in the next year. Family reunion 1996 is in the 1996 "season" while family reunion 2006 in is the 2006 "season". And so on.
When someone is over and they want to see some specific family memory (video), tagging them individually like this makes it very easy to find the right one. If I was going by just dates, it would involve more guessing (was the family reunion in July 2006, or June... or August? Was it the 2006 reunion where that (thing you want to see happened) or was it 2007 or 2005?
Yes, tagging them is a time-consuming hassle. But it's one of those jobs you only do once. And you may find it helpful for playback as your home movie collection (probably) continues to grow and grow for the rest of your life.
As is, my family doesn't need me to locate and play a particular home move from way back when. They just go into "TV Shows" on

TV and use the descriptions to find the one they want to see. This may be the best reason to go to the trouble.
Just a suggestion- if what you are doing works fine for your needs, great!