Hello,
the archive information structures are an easy (non coding) approach to read archive files and persist them into a table. They can subsequently accessed by 3rd party tools for an export. But keep in mind archive information structures have to be created in the original system.
So you have to implement a migration of the required data.
The existing archive information structures are inteded to support a fast single document access. Meaning, the do not include all tables, fields of an existing archiving object. So you would have to create your own.
Archive information structures are only aplicable for archiving objects. So they can be used for master data, but most customers do not archive master data. For customizing data, no archiving objects exist. So you have to create extracts using the original table. This is pretty much comparable to the DART extraction process.
Best Regards
Stefan