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Have your wife upgrade the apps on a device that uses her Apple ID. You can then use Family Sharing so that you, too, can access the apps on your device.

About Family Sharing

1. Set up Family Sharing
2. Family Sharing - Apple Support
3. Share purchased content with Family Sharing
4. Family Sharing and Apple IDs for kids
5. Share an iCloud storage plan with your family - Apple Support
6. Leave Family Sharing
7. iCloud - Family Sharing - Apple Support
8. Family Sharing and Apple IDs for kids

Set up Family Sharing with your wife.

Family Sharing.         

Family Sharing - Set up.       

Apps tied to a different Apple ID than yours cannot be upgraded from your Apple ID. The 24 apps in question were purchased by someone else or by you using a different Apple ID.