1. a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people
2. a place where historical documents or records are stored

1. to place or store documents or data in an archive

Examples

• The university archive contains letters from famous alumni.
• Researchers spent weeks studying documents in the national archive.
• The company’s digital archive holds decades of financial records.
• She works as an archivist at the city archive.
• The museum will archive these photographs for future generations.
• Please archive these old emails to free up storage space.
• The library archived the rare manuscripts in climate-controlled storage.