XP is perfectly serviceable for OP's use case, there is no reason to overburden the hardware if it's just for Web browsing and there is no point in trying to teach old dogs new tricks with Ubuntu, especially considering the fact that Ubuntu sucks and Mint is better in every way. Personally I would download all the drivers from the support page, note down the sets that worked, nuke it and re-do it again. Time consuming, sure, but guaranteed to work. Alternatively go with
@FAST6191's suggestion, but I consider applications like these to be unnecessary bloatware - you can just as easily look up device ID's from the device manager itself.