Restaurant grade stainless frying pan - baked on carbon - wire wheel?

My son brought me home some restaurant grade stainless steel frying pans from a restaurant he worked in that closed down. They look like good pans except the bottom have an amazing amount of baked on carbon from over the years. Initial tests of a bunch of cleaning methods I found on web didn't do much at all. Would a wire wheel on a drill cause damage? Kindo of want to try and salvage because he was proud to give them to me and the restaurant has a lot of local history ;^) But wow .....