The phrase "as archives" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something in the context of being stored or maintained as records or historical documents.
Example: "The documents were preserved as archives to ensure future generations could access them."
Alternatives: "in the form of archives" or "as record collections".
Around the White House, it became known as Archives 2, a reference to the president's May 2009 speech at the National Archives on counterterrorism issues.
The book used a form of historical scholarship considered unorthodox at the time, employing newspaper accounts, personal letters and diaries as well as archives.
So I decided to imagine them not as archives but as wunderkammers, celebrating the visions these words opened in the mind, and their tastes on the tongue.
I mean [the documentary] is only just coming out in Australia and already the footage is being used as archives to [document] the destruction of the reef".
The Nintendo (//www.nintendo.com/home), Midway Games (//www.midwaygames.com), and Rockstar Games (//www.rockstargames.com/) Web sites all have information on new releases as well as archives of older games.
For younger comics, streaming sites increasingly serve as archives of old material (most of Aziz Ansari's back catalog can be found on Netflix).
And as this exhibition's impressive catalog once more proves, the art-show-as-archive tends to achieve its best expression in book form.
It's the art show as archive, as voyeuristic entertainment.
This is art show as archive, as sociological document, as lifestyle tourism.
Officials said the deal would give fans access to daily N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. highlights as well as archived N.B.A. highlights.
The current version with Gavin Bryars and his ensemble includes sample-based material from turntablist Philip Jeck, as well as archive footage of the ship and its fate.
