Collect them! Dry them! Make flour! Make Liz’s Tortilla recipe! Waste nothing! ;)
https://foragerchef.com/how-to-make-acorn-flour/
Acorns can be eaten raw, roasted, or boiled.
To make flour, soup, porridge, cake, bread, and coffee-like beverages.
Acorn noodle soup is a distinctive flavor.
It’s a shame that all the hickory trees that are here are Bitternut Hickory. Good wood for handles and burning in the smoker but the nuts, as per it’s name, are bitter. Just checked out a wikipedia article on them and evidently, the nuts have a high percentage of oil that can be extracted and is similar to pecan oil.
One of their links even leads to forager|chef — https://foragerchef.com/sam-thayers-bitternut-hickory-nut-oil/