1. An electronic item management and archival system for managing and archiving items, each item including at least one of image data, audio data, and video data and associated data relating to the at least one of image data, audio data, and video data, the system comprising: an item-generation device configured to provide items; a server in communication with the item-generation device, the server being configured to receive the items from the item-generation device, archive at least one of the received items to an archive, and retrieve at least one of the archived items from the archive, the server including architecture that supports a pool of threads promoting multiple, independent archive and retrieve operations concurrently; and a storage device in communication with the server, the storage device being configured to receive the archived items from the server and store the received items.