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Advice Required: Best way to handle expired products

I'm just after a bit of advice if anyone had any experience in this area?

I help run a cycling related website which has a large quantity of available content (around 3k products), but also around 12k of products which are currently out of stock.

Some of these will become available again, but most probably won't.

These out of stock products are no longer linked from their main categories, so users browsing the website only see the available products

At the moment most of the expired products rank reasonably high on Google (usually 5-10th, quite low competition on the keywords), and they do provide useful information on the products that might not be available elsewhere (weights/sizes/colours etc).

However I was concerned that they might be eating up my crawl budget.

I don't really have anywhere I can redirect the old pages to (other than their main category, which I believe Google discourages) as redirecting an old product to another (vaguely related) product doesn't seem to be a good idea, as it won't be fufilling the visitors needs (Search for Product A, get Product B?)

Or should I just leave it, "if it's not broke then don't fix it"?

What would you guys recommend? Thank you in advance for any advice you can offer.

TLDR: Lots of out of stock products that kinda rank, how would you handle them?

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