I can see the outer shell crack open on many of the seeds but I cannot see any definitive sign of life yet.  I will put about half of them into plugs tommorrow and see what happens next.

Thank you for the link, will have a look!  

I am doing my best to do as this guy shows he is doing with old seeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPzfZ_xFXtE&t=298s