Honestly, it doesn't change much until we get to electricity, though gold plated metal objects would be much more common due to gold's anti-corrosive nature. Mirrors also might have been cheaper in the past as gold makes a decent mirror and is easy to work and polish.
Once we get electricity though? We'd use gold in pretty much everywhere save for when we absolutely positively MUST minimize electrical resistance (where we'd still use silver, likely plated with gold to prevent rust). Gold is a better conductor than copper and aluminum, and since it never oxidizes or corrodes it's superior to both those metals. What this ALSO means is that a lot of mid-20th century electrical fires are just outright prevented, as they were caused by aluminum wiring*.
* While aluminum is fairly conductive, aluminum oxide is considerably less, so much so that when aluminum wires oxidate the new resistance from of the aluminum oxide creates enough heat to eventual catch wood and such on FIRE. This is why aluminum wiring is now pretty much universally banned and replaced as soon as it is found. Copper oxide and silver oxide don't have as much drop off, and so generally won't cause any major problems.