Melissa Coates has some good advice if you start using Azure Data Catalog:
Register only data sources that users interact with. Usually the first priority is to register data sources that the users see-for instance, the reporting database or DW that you want users to go to rather than the original source data. Depending on how you want to use the data catalog, you might also want to register the original source. In that case you probably want to hide it from business users so it’s not confusing. Which leads me to the next tip…
Use security capabilities to hide unnecessary sources. The Standard (paid) version will allow you to have some sources registered but only discoverable by certain users & hidden from other users (i.e., asset level authorization). This is great for sensitive data like HR. It’s also useful for situations when, say, IT wants to document certain data sources that business users don’t access directly.
This is a good set of advice.