archival value. [Archives] 
n., [records] The whole of the records of a creator. [Archives] 
n., [records] The whole of the records created by an agency and preserved. Alias: archival fonds. [Archives] 
n., [records] 1) The documents created or received and accumulated by a person or organization in the course of the conduct of]
affairs, and preserved because of their continuing value. Historically, the term referred more narrowly to the noncurrent records
[inactive records] of an organization or institutio