The phrase "archives are kept" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the storage or preservation of historical documents or records.
Example: "In our organization, archives are kept in a climate-controlled environment to ensure their longevity."
Alternatives: "archives are stored" or "archives are maintained".
From the start, the Nixon Library and Birthplace (the Nixon presidential archives are kept in College Park, Md).
Burtynsky's photo archives are kept on hard drives in a walk-in antique safe with walls three feet thick.
Over the years, Agee's script was more rumor than fact, until Mr. Wranovics unearthed an incomplete, hand-written copy of the treatment at the University of Texas, where Agee's archives are kept.
"It was a perfect Manhattan solution: you could get this structure in a building for relatively little money, and it took up so little room," said Ms. Parks, curator of drawings at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia, where the Guastavino company archives are kept.
Because Clinton wanted a light-filled library, the archives are kept underground to protect them from damage from ultraviolet degradation.
Archives were kept by scribes on wooden blocks and bamboo strips.
He says he thinks that important records in the Johnson archives were kept from him.
Federal health officials found traces of anthrax on all three floors of the 68,000-square-foot building -- on desks, computers, carpets, a fax machine and shelves in the library where the archives were kept.
The archive is kept at Hanslope Park, a sprawling Foreign Office and MI6 outstation in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside.
The Sadakachi Hartmann Archive is kept at the University of California, Riverside, where a number of his out-of-print volumes have been edited for republication.
Luckily, there existed a photograph by Emery Walker of the painting in its original frame; Johnson found it at the National Portrait Gallery, where Walker's archive is kept.
