The archive should help older work become newly legible.
That does not mean rewriting it.
It does not mean pretending the old language was cleaner than it was.
It means giving the older work a better frame.
What was it reaching for?
What does it connect to now?
What language has matured since then?
The archive can hold the old artifact and the new lens at the same time.
That is where the evolution becomes easier to see.