Best use for rancid nuts?

I’m an avid tree nut gatherer. After they are hulled and cured/dried I put them in buckets and store in a basement. This works well, I take out a bunch at a time and crack them for eating or processing.

I was cracking open a bunch of shagbark hickory from 2023 to make hickory milk. Many nuts were good, but the more I cracked and occasionally tasted some, I realized these had largely gone rancid. Too poor quality to make milk from and they were small nuts not especially nice for eating anymore. I mostly ate this bucket full already thankfully but there is probably a gallon left of in-shell mostly rancid hickories.

What is the best use of these now? I want to empty the bucket to store other foods in it. I have a compost roller and heap compost piles, 3x3x3ft, but I find nuts in shell take a long time to decay there. I have a small flock of chickens and they enjoy the crushed nuts, but I’m not sure if rancidity is okay for the chickens? Crushing the nuts seems like a pain if I’m not eating them, but it would make these other options work better. I could also just chuck the nuts in the woods but that seems like least good use, since they are not viable seed anymore and could attract rodents or weevils. Last idea I had was to stash them away for winter and burn them with firewood. My stove has a catalytic converter so I’m not sure if burning oily rancid nuts affects that but would be surprised, and I bet these are packed with BTUs so could be good.

What do you think is the best use? Thanks for any ideas!