The developments in the digital preservation world are as bewildering as they are dazzling. Each new generation of technology provides new and unexpected functionality and opportunities to exploit content. With this functionality comes responsibilities and demands, and rarely is it obvious what innovations are appropriate and sustainable, This session describes some of the new developments and in the audio and audiovisual environment and stresses the aspects that are appropriate to the general task of AV Archiving. It looks at the storage environment, making suggestions about low cost sustainable options, considers the workflows and formats associated with larger scale preservation projects and thinks about the need to manage the metadata, as well as the metadata itself, and how this might be achieved. These issues will be discussed from an open source development consideration (Kevin Bradley), digital deposit & digitization for preservation standards and workflows (Martin Jacobson) and Software tools to help manage audio and audio-visual collections (Bruce Gordon).