Sound and Vision looks after:
- The archives of the public broadcasting corporation. Radio from 1934, television from 1951; 
- The Polygoon collection (from 1922). More than 60 years of news and reports from the Netherlands and abroad, with the golden voice of Philip Bloemendal;
- Documentaries by well-known film makers such as Haanstra and Van der Horst;
- The radio play archives, with Paul Vlaanderen and the family Doorsnee;
- The sound archives, with more than 10,000 ‘lost’ sounds. From historic aeroplanes and rattling milk churns to the silence of a French campsite;
- 40,000 commercials from 1920 up to the present.  The Party Political Broadcast films;
- Sport on radio and television: from Holland v. Belgium, the Tour de France and the Olympic Games to the Elfstedentocht;
- Science and education films;
- The Royal Family collection;
Government and commissioned films, confiscated war material, propaganda and publicity films;
- Over 20,000 objects from the history of broadcasting: props, scenery, costumes and the equipment used for recording, broadcasting and reception;
- The Nationaal Muziekdepot: one of the largest and most complete music collections in the world; a century of music on wax cylinders, records and CD’s;
- The ethnomusicology collection – collected by the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen;
- An extensive specialist library for the history of media and broadcasting;
- More than two million photos from broadcasting history: the broadcasters, the stars, the scenery and the recordings.