How Are You Managing Old News Archives or Legacy Docs That Still Matter?

[emilycarter98]

Hey folks,

We’ve got years’ worth of print publications, PDFs, and other legacy content that still holds value for research, republishing, and internal reference. Problem is, most of it sits in disconnected folders or half-scanned files that aren’t searchable or usable in any real way.

We’ve started looking into smarter digital archiving tools that go beyond basic storage and actually help surface information from those archives when needed. Not just file names, but context: people, topics, events, even ads.

Has anyone here used tools that worked well for:

• Digitizing old print material with clean, searchable outputs
  
  
• Extracting entities like people, places, and dates automatically
  
  
• Making archives easily searchable for non-technical users
  
  
• Stitching multi-page articles or matching metadata across issues
  
  
• Supporting long-term access or newsroom workflows

We’ve started testing a Digital Archive Software by Scry AI recently and it’s been surprisingly useful in making our legacy content usable again, especially for editorial and research folks. But still figuring things out.

Curious how others are dealing with old-but-valuable content. Are you using custom tools, manual tagging, or something else entirely?