If you go through them ever couple of weeks and rub the eyes/sprouts off of them they potatoes won't get so dehydrated. Those sprouts are pulling the moisture out of the potato.
Then, when it comes time to plant, you can cut them up into pieces with one or two little sprouts on each piece and put them under the dirt in a well tilled area.
My dad used to keep the biggest of everything as "seed" for the next year. He set aside the biggest potatoes, the biggest ears of corn, and with beans, he keep the ones with the most beans in a pod. When he started (over 30 years ago) he was saving beans from pods of 5 or more. The last year he had a garden he didn't save any beans for seed unless they were from a pod of 8 beans or more. This was for both green beans and soup beans.