Archives Florida is a growing database of finding aids (guides and inventories) to collections held by archives in Florida. Any archive, library, historical society, museum or similar agency in Florida with archival collections is eligible to contribute finding aids to the Archives Florida database if the finding aids adhere to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard and follow the Statewide EAD Best Practice Guidelines.

Archives Florida grew from a grant-funded initiative named Opening Archives: Improving Access to Primary Sources in Florida. In 2006, a grant from the State Library and Archives of Florida supported four regional workshops workshops that trained more than 80 people from 40 organizations. The final project report was submitted November 1, 2006."

Opening Archives continues as an effort by FCLA and its partners to train librarians, archivists and curators to create electronic finding aids as part of their routine collection processing and workflow. In the future, FCLA expects to offer more workshops on EAD and related topics.