A Day in the Life of RTÉ Archives...

Malachy Moran

Manager Sound Library and Archive

September 21st 2013 NPD Ireland – Autumn Event

• RTÉ Archives is Ireland’s oldest and largest audiovisual archive

• Employs 41 staff

• Supports 60,000 research

sessions p. @

• Supplies up to 5% of Radio

airtime and 10% of TV airtime

Collecting begins 1926

Gramophone Library 1934

Film Library 1968

Sound Archive 1968

Stills Library 1967

TV News Libraries 1990

Written Archives 1991

TV Sports Library 1995

Background

• 210,000 hours of TV

• 150,000 hours of Radio

• 500,000 selected images

• Document archive - still

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Last 15

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Holdings are deteriorating and formats are

becoming obsolete...

Public expectation is that digital

infrastructures are mature!

Thank you