"Find its role" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to ask someone to identify the purpose of something or to determine the function of something. For example: "We need to find its role in the project and see if there is a way to optimize it."
It is testimony to the enervated condition of the national civil rights movement today, as it struggles to find its role and mission, and searches, impossibly of course, for the next Martin Luther King.
Here was a Latino population, like Kansas' population when it first started, trying to get its bearings and find its role in a new area.
Sentiment analysis just has to find its role.
The report of the talks comes at a time when the News Corporation is also struggling to find its role in the Internet-driven news and entertainment world.
The program that led Ms. Sklaroff to New Mexico is sponsored by the Santa Fe Art Institute, which was founded in 1985 but has struggled to find its role in this city's burgeoning cultural landscape.
Over time, Russia could become more integrated into a Continent grappling to find its role as the United States shifts its global priorities away from Europe and toward China.
In addition to working under a conductor it disliked, the BBC SO found its role as a pioneer of progressive music gone, and its performances of the standard classics criticised as under-rehearsed (particularly during Proms seasons) compared with those given by Legge's Philharmonia and others.
As CT descriptions of the various diffuse lung diseases are being continuously refined and certain CT characteristics are considered pathognomonic while others become less specific, HRCT finds its role in an integrated approach of diagnosis where it provides sufficient information to produce a differential diagnosis and in many cases allows a non-invasive definitive diagnosis [1].
Here is where Sabbateanism found its role.
Ibn 'Arabî finds its role in human becoming encapsulated in the Prophet's saying, "Everything has a haqq, so give to each that has a haqq its haqq".
With the completion of Interstate 35 in June 1959, Norman found its role as a bedroom community to Oklahoma City increasing rapidly; in 1960 Norman's population was 33,412 but by the end of the decade had grown to 52,117.
