Currently, this path is intended to help users locate music archives of the Twentieth century, and, to a limited extent, of the Nineteenth century. In the near future, we hope to broaden the chronological range of web searchable fonds and finding aids to earlier centuries.

The path has been created by the Direzione generale per gli archivi (General Directorate for Archives), thanks to the help of the Soprintendenze Archivistiche (Archival Supervision Agencies) and, for some fonds, of non-state archival institutions.

Users are provided with a description at a fonds level of archives, of their creators and of the institutes that preserve them. In a few cases, inventories of the archival fonds are also available. Such search tools are also available in the Sistema archivistico nazionale (National Archival System), the Portale degli Archivi della musica (Music Archival Portal), online since 2010, and the Portale Verdi on line (Verdi online Portal), on line since 2013.

This portal is a work in progress. The General Directorate of Archives plans to put on line an increasing number of finding aids related to music archival sources in the future.