yes, I would follow the paper path and clean it out.
if you decide you want to trash it, there are lots of nice parts inside. stepper motors and drivers, ferrite beads (toroids and such as well), fuser assembly, ccfl inverter and bulb, lots of button switches, rails for the scanner head to travel on, maybe ribbon cables, power supply/transformer. lots and lots of photo interruptors. the scanner head probably has a linear encoder strip in it (to determine position). The LCD may or may not be usable
I pulled apart a brother laser printer (from around 1998) and it was a real treasuer trove. including the above stuff, I got a bunch of nice heat sinks for TO220s. what was dissapointing is that all the power ICs were house labeled and I didn't want to take the time to trace out the circuit and figure each one out. there was a multiwatt package that was probably the stepper driver but it didn't match any package I could find. sigh.