My office is cleaning the closets and we have lots of old software. Other than dump it in land fill is there anyone who needs this stuff. Lots of ADOBE Creative suite 2 boxed sets with license numbers. and other assorted stuff. You would need a mac with a power PC chip to run this stuff.
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It might be worth contacting the Macintosh Garden to see if they need any of this - especially the license numbers. That way it would all be available to the community, worldwide. 
Seconding everything @TheShortTimer wrote here.
The garden has, over time, become a remarkable, community-sourced conservator of abandoned and discontinued software for older Macs, as there remains a small, but appreciable community of 68000, PowerPC, and even early Intel Mac enthusiasts and retrocomputing tinkerers.
Generally, an understanding behind the conservatory steps within these communities is there were versions of software products which ran at their best for a specific era or model of Macs, even though there may have been later versions of that same software whose hardware requirements covered those older models. These later sofware versions, however, slowed in their performance, optimized for later iterations of Macs with newer-generation processors. As well, this later software, as with the earlier, interim versions, may no longer maintained, sold, or offered anywhere. That’s where the garden comes in.
There is also a Discord server for the garden, whose link ought to be on the web site. This can put you in more immediate touch with its maintainers.
Not sure if you can still activate those. I remember quite a few years ago, Adobe shut down the server that activated CS2 products. But what they did was simply provide one serial number that anybody could use, regardless of what the real one was. There were a bunch of articles about this at the time, because it made those old apps de-facto free (of course, this wasn't their intention, it was a courtesy for legitimate owners of CS2). I actually installed Photoshop CS2 on my old Windows PC at the time.
Now, that was quite some time ago, maybe about 10 years? Seems to me that this no longer works however and you just can't activate these old apps at all now. But I could be wrong...
[edit]Here's one of many old articles about this:
Adobe releases Creative Suite 2 for free
If you have an older Mac or Windows system and wish to do some image editing, you'll be glad to hear Adobe's CS2 software is now available for free.
This one says that it just can't be installed anymore, even with original disks:
Creative Suite archive
If you purchased Creative Suite 5, 5.5, or 6 from Adobe or registered your app, you may be able to download the installer for your app from your account.
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That can't be right - I somehow managed to get CS...4?... I think, on both my titanium G4 and my Snow Leopard Mac Pro. The one really weird thing is that you have to set the clock back 5-10 years to check for updates - I guess some certificates are expired or something - but once you do that, Adobe's servers will happily serve you all the patches.This one says that it just can't be installed anymore, even with original disks:
Creative Suite archive
If you purchased Creative Suite 5, 5.5, or 6 from Adobe or registered your app, you may be able to download the installer for your app from your account.helpx.adobe.com
Indeed, please do not let the office just throw those. Many people are interested in these.
I will pass the requests on.
However as Boyd01 has noted the software may not be functional. I will pass the comments on and see how much time management is willing to invest.
I don't think we use many of the new features that the Adobe 2023 has to offer. CS2 was fine. The only problem is Apple hardware made it obsolete.