Old Music

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I am in desperate needs of some money, and started looking around the house today to see what I could part with. Since as long as I can remember I've always brought home old music from garage sales, for fifty-cents or so a piece. Not only did I enjoy the challenge of playing through new music but I also loved the old paper smell (I know I'm crazy, I do the same with books too.) After looking through a few stacks I got out some pieces I could part with and began to look on ebay to see if anyone else was selling this music. To my delight most of the music I picked up was selling for $4-5 dollars. Then I came to one in which one individual had priced his for $180's. The weird thing was that there were a few other auctions of the same item for $7-8. It made me ask the question though "How could I know how much a piece of music is worth?" Going to a dealer isn't necessarily what I want to do, so is there any place online to search? Also since most of the music does not have ISBN numbers or editions where do you find out how old it is? Thanks