This paper examines community archiving and women’s oral histories within Digitizing the Barrio, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s community archive in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, and oral history analysis, the project traces both women’s narratives and the labor required to record, transcribe, preserve, and circulate these stories. The paper argues that storytelling and archiving function as ongoing community practices through which collective memory, community continuity, and Puerto Rican diasporic identity are produced and sustained. Women’s oral histories make visible forms of labor often marginalized within dominant accounts of activism, including caregiving, relationship-building, and sustaining community institutions across generations. Through practices of narration, archiving, and circulation, personal stories become part of broader processes of political education, intergenerational exchange, and community recognition. In this way, the archive does more than preserve the past: it produces recognition in the present and helps carry community memory and political identity into the future.