The Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology (Berkeley, California, USA) houses an archival collection of 12,000 documents and3,000 photographs. These records derive from archaeological excavations held over five seasons, from 1926-1935, led by William F. Badè at the site of Tell en-Naṣbeh (Ramallah, Palestine). Until recently, their use has been limited to addressing questions about archaeological methods and historical evidence to shed light on the ancient settlement. In 2021, museum curators began cataloging and reevaluating these archival sources, viewed through a new lens: as museum objects that are part of a continuous, multivariate assemblage alongside the archaeological artifacts housed at the museum, which were also produced by the original Mandate-era excavations at Tell en-Naṣbeh. Like the artifacts, the archives hold rich and complex histories of production, disposition, use, digitization, curation, interpretation, and exhibition. The archives range in format and modality, including analog and digitized image, film, and documentary records. They encompass photographic prints and negatives; hand-painted glass slides; nitrate film reels; hand-drawn illustrations, maps, plans, and object sketches; and hand- and typewritten documents covering a wide array of issues of daily life and excavation management. This paper will discuss the complex and varied life-histories of several key examples of different archival media to inform on questions about the dependent relationships between the archives and artifact collections. It will also explain the curatorial and archiving processes at the museum in the past and today, including new efforts to digitize, document, and curate these important records.