Meaning

• A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.

• The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

  "His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain."

• Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

  "soil archive; peat archive"

Meaning

• To put into an archive.

  "I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001."