HAMACA manages, catalogues and preserves its digital archive. To this end, it carries out documentation, research and continuous training tasks for the technical team, ensuring the best conditions of conservation and access to the pieces.

The videos that form part of the HAMACA archive are selected by external, specialised and heterogeneous juries. Every two years, HAMACA calls for entries to the archive. The evaluation committee for each call selects the works to be included in the archive and presents a list of artists who do not belong to the archive yet and who it considers should be included in the archive.

The cataloguing process compiles the main data on authorship and production and classifies the works in relation to HAMACA's own taxonomy, a conceptual framework based on words that name and interrelate the pieces to facilitate their search. The tasks of storage and digitisation are of great importance to ensure the conservation of the works in the future, taking into account the increasingly rapid and constant technological changes. HAMACA promotes a debate on memory and heritage that proposes both new practices and protocols for the preservation of and access to materials and a reflection on the role of archives in this field. HAMACA also works on the recovery of relevant historical works and the recovery of works in obsolete formats such as U-MATIC, Betamax and VHS.

The archive work also involves the managing of a physical archive that has over 1,500 productions from different collections donated by private individuals.