If they are files, take a piece of mild or medium temper steel (find a scrap there if you need to). Look at the teeth, put your fingers on them and see if they feel like they want to grip your skin when you grab them and if they feel decent, take a test filing off of the mild steel. If need be, find the best newest unused one and use that as your bar.
Files can be resharpened at boggs tool for about $3 per or something to that effect, and they'll probably be at least as good as new after, but I doubt boggs can work magic, so if teeth are completely dull and rounded over and damaged to some extent, I'd leave those behind.
Even though these are good new files, I also wouldn't go all out and pay a whole bunch for them (e.g., if they are mostly mill files, I wouldn't pay more than a buck or two per file, they won't otherwise be worth your time to sell, and they won't do great things for you sitting around if you aren't doing things that really consume files (building infills and other metal tools in the absence of mills, etc). Now, if you find piles of machinist pattern files or vintage jewelers files (barrette files, pillar or other swiss pattern files that have really crisp edges and good teeth), and especially taper saw files in 4-7" lengths, then you might want to get them, too. But don't overspend, because some files just don't have a used market that compares well to what their cost is new.