noun, verb
noun (also archives [pl.]) a collection of historical documents or records of a government, a family, a place or an organization; the place where these records are stored:
the National Sound Archive * archive film * The BBC's archives are bulging with material.
verb [VN]
1 to put or store a document or other material in an archive
2 (computing) to move information that is not often needed to a tape or disk to store it
