The Archive of Alabama Folk Culture (AAFC) was established in 2006 to preserve fieldwork, research documents, recordings, and artifacts of the state's folk traditions.

When fully operational, the AAFC will make decades of research done by state folkloristis and scholars accessible to the public. A key component of the AAFC is a studio equipped to copy 78rpm records, long-play albums, reel and cassette recordings, and various other audio and video recordings to digital format.  It has recently received funding from the National Endwoment for the Arts under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009), which will support a folklife archivist for one year to do such work.