The RTÉ Archives holds over 500,000 photographs, 150,000 hours of audio, and 210,000 hours of moving images documenting Irish broadcasting history from the 1920s to present. As demand and platforms for accessing this content grow, new tools are needed to improve discovery of content across databases and allow for more automated search and curation. RTÉ Archives is collaborating with research partners to investigate how semantic web and linked data technologies can help meet these needs by suggesting new pathways of exploration and tracking content use throughout its lifecycle.