By using three case studies, this thesis explores the past and current practices, systems, and methods that archivists developed to manage, destroy, select, and make available case file records, as well as how current innovations are influencing a change in the management of case files today and into the future. I examine of the destruction of case files pertaining to the eugenics program of Alberta, the management of eHealth case files in Canada, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation archive’s creation of “virtual case files.” I provide an overview of past and current practices utilized by archivists to manage case files from the mid-twentieth century to the early 2000s by discussing the archival literature surrounding the management of case files. I also outline the way that historians have used case files and why case files are important to historians. I explore the use of databases to manage case file records and the challenges that come with preserving these complex, interactive digital systems. I discuss the development of third order archival interface systems which would allow users to easily arrange archival digital records into as many different aggregations they need, as well as allow archivists to further contextualize and decolonize the records by placing the perspectives and needs of marginalized communities first in all archival decisions. Lastly, I argue that the concepts of imagined records, affect, and radical empathy should influence the decisions regarding the management of case files such as appraisal, retention, arrangement, description, preservation, and access.