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RTÉ Radio Libraries and Archives holds a selection of news, sports, arts, traditional music, documentaries and drama.
The collection of recorded music dates from the founding of 2RN in 1926. Spoken word archiving began a decade later with the purchase of the first disc-cutting machinery. The oldest sound recordings owned by RTÉ date from before 1930 but the bulk of the collection dates from the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Since 1996 live daytime radio programmes transmitted on a daily or weekly basis have been recorded, catalogued and stored in digital format. RTÉ now holds over 100,000 hours of music and spoken word recordings. Every year over 5,000 hours of spoken word and 2,000 hours of commercial music recordings are added to the collection.
RTÉ Radio Libraries and Archives is also developing a dedicated restoration and conservation facility to oversee the safe transfer of sound recordings from legacy formats. These formats include acetate, shellac and vinyl discs, as well as various forms of analogue and digital tape.
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