There's an ongoing joke that anywhere I'm active for long enough, I end up becoming a moderator or site staff. Seriously, I've got five moderator promotions under my belt, two of which eventually lead to site-staff promotions.
If I were a moderator, the first thing I'd do is clean up the stickies. I'd unsticky old and broken threads, and sticky some new and useful ones in their place. Threads that are old and not being maintained, but still very well-written and useful would just be edited to have a disclaimer regarding their outdatedness.