Refurbished thin clients usually work great and have great value.
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Intel NUC or similar mini-pcs. $500 can get you a pretty decent performant machine with ample memory. Extensibility can be an issue as the small form factor obviously does not allow much room for storage and expansion. Usually they only comes with 1 or 2 PCIe x4 M.2 slots. Some may provide you an extra SATA. If you want to be futureproof and you want to leave the machine as-is, you had better spot a machine with Thunderbolt 3/USB4 connectivity.
I've ended up in a similar situation. My solution has been digging out all of my old pis to make a kubernetes cluster lol