How do archives function as repositories of knowledge?

Archives function like a human brain through holding information, and us selecting where the information goes, but can only hold things that have happened in the past and what is currently occurring in the present moment. They hold information through peoples activities or organisations which they have done, they are mainly seen as records of something, for example, an image, or a poem, even letters of important or even non-important information. archives are more the gran scheme of things which hold the information, they are not the information themselves, they are designed to only hold the information and can be in large quantities. Archives are digital, and physical, most commonly they are physical because in the past there wasn’t anything “digital” and they can be better looked after. Société Jersiaise are a facility which do all this but specifically about Jersey and its historical context. They where founded during 1873 by 3 islanders who where interested on the antiques and languages the island held, which grew the facilities a lot and allowed for information to be held much better. They even have people that have been taking images over the years of the island every day to show people for the future what society looks like currently and how people acted in every day life, even what it looked like. We learn a lot from doing things like this, as it shows a timeline of how society has grown or when it has crashed. To better understand it, archives are things like apps which you may log into or just use, even what you watch, as these things hold information about you and track what you do which is sort of like an archive, but also like building blocks, as the more you use the apps the more things it knows about you and the more it stores about you like an archive. And now knowledge is power.