More than 70 years of history through 900.000 photographs. More than 600.000 hours of TV footage and radio recordings. An advanced multimedia recording system. Rai Archives is a source for anyone in need of images (companies, film and television producers, advertising and communication agencies, television networks, archives and libraries, etc). RaiTrade distributes their rights exclusively. In addition, it offers a selection of the most significant television material from the last century: a catalogue that makes tens of thousands of images available to those that produce documentaries, historical reports, cultural and current affairs programmes, and commercials. And furthermore, RaiTrade distributes the historical archives of the Ansaldo Foundation, of the Perugina Company and of I Guzzini: invaluable sources for the history of Italian economy.
 
List of genres:
- current affairs and reports;
- famous productions;
- personalities of the 20th century;
- Italian Portrait/Italian Lifestyle;
- nature and environment;
- cuisine;
- fashion;
- festivities and folklore;
- arts and restoration;
- handicraft;
- tourism;
- Popes and Jubilees;
- natural catastrophes and calamities;
- history of the Italian television and radio;
- Caroselli (TV ad shows from the ‘50s to the ‘70s);
- entertainment and variety shows;
- sport;
- Italian cinema;
- Italian theatre;
- major Italian events (Sanremo, Miss Italia, etc)
and, in addition, the managing of the Ansaldo archives (especially in regard to the periods preceding the beginning of Italian television), Perugina, I Guzzini.