RTÉ plans €2.5m project to digitally archive almost 40 years of footage

The 'Live Mike' team in 1982: Fran Dempsey, Twink, Mike Murphy, and Dermot Morgan. RTÉ plans to make digitised recordings and catalogue records available for production purposes and potentially leading to publication on the RTÉ Archives website. Picture: RTÉ Stills Library

RTÉ is set to spend up to €2.5m on a major project that will digitally archive over 287,000 hours of footage, spanning almost 40 years.

The broadcaster said it wants to make the digitised recordings and catalogue records available for production purposes and potentially leading to publication on the RTÉ Archives website.