My iPod is locked but I don’t want to delete all the data

I had this iPod when I was fourteen I lost it and until recently I couldn’t find it. I have forgotten the password but I don’t want to restore it because it has so much of my childhood stuff on it that I stupidly did not back up.

Would jailbreaking it be a method of by passing the password acceding all my old photos backing them up and then restoring it to factory settings? Or could I even change the password from my computer in order to access it the way I usually would?

Or should I just send it to one of those unlock shops?

Thanks