From your own account, it would seem that you valued the "albums" themselves exclusively, since the vinyl discs themselves, containing the music, must surely have been intact. I can understand that, but let's be real.
The albums were probably not the only things damaged, and when you lose so much with one fell swoop, you don’t think all that clearly. When we had a flood, my husband was so devastated with the loss that, in his grief, he forgot that the vinyl would still be good. It was such an emotional thing. We threw all of that, plus our other ruined things, in the nearest trash receptacle. When we started rebuilding his collection, we realized how foolish we had been, but at the time, it seemed like the right decision.
Unfortunately it was more than a sprinkle of water. The whole collection got thoroughly soaked in a couple of inches of water. The covers were soggy and stuck to the disks themselves. I tried to salvage them but paper fibers were embedded into the grooves and essentially “glued”.
They were beyond my abilities to salvage.