Deleting Google Photos, Keeping Google email handle

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of deleting my Google Photos. I have around 50gb of photos/videos stored there and have already backed it up to the new place I will use for storage. Is there a way to delete my Google Photos account, but not my entire Google account? Or do I really have to just manually delete tens of thousands of photos and then empty the trash?

Any tips would be much appreciated, thanks!