I actually worked at the tail end of the IRAS era. When I first came to IPAC as a student, I worked on the development of the HIRES algorithm, a method of image reconstruction that used the information in the IRAS scan data to recover some of the resolution that the optical train could deliver (normally IRAS images are limited by the subtended angle of the detector footprint). A couple papers came out of that:

• High resolution IRAS observations of interacting systems in the IRAS bright galaxy sample, 1993, Surace et al., AJ, 105, 864
• An IRAS High Resolution Image Restoration (HIRES) Atlas of All Interacting Galaxies in the IRAS Revised Bright Galaxy Sample, Surace et al., 2004, AJ, 127, 3235