Photo digitization project

I just learned from my daughter that Photoshop has an “actions” feature that would let us automate the procedure of saving our tiff files to jpeg and then to jpeg thumbnails.  I got all excited because this could certainly save student worker, Jessica Julius’ sanity.  She is the only person, that I
trust with this job.

Of course when checking it out I discovered that since we are using Photoshop Elements, that came with the scanner, we can’t do it.  It doesn’t include this feature.  So now I’m lobbying for an upgrade.

Anyone out there have experience with this that they
would like to share?