Arkiv Digital operates as a privately-held limited liability company with its headquarters located in Lyrestad, within the Mariestad Municipality, Sweden.

[8] Among the key types of records Arkiv Digital has photographed are the following: The image database also includes judicial documents, mostly court records and land registration protocols, as well as a considerable number of other archival series, such as prisoner rolls, and archives related to “seaman’s houses” (sjömanshus, state institutions for mustering and registering seamen in mercantile shipping).

[9] Among local materials is an extensive collection of digitized historical records from the regional archive of the Swedish-speaking Åland in Mariehamn, Finland.

An investment memorandum from 2008 summarizes the origins: “The initiative to establish the company Arkiv Digital was taken by Mikael Karlsson, Gabriel Wallgren, Magnus Näslund and others in the summer of 2005.

[17] In 2007, Arkiv Digital launched a subscription service, allowing researchers to access the company's entire image database via the internet.

[22][23] This achievement allowed the company to offer photographs of the same church books as the then competitors Genline and SVAR, but with the added benefit of color.

[26] Another example of diversifying was the acquisition in 2016 of several million older aerial photographs, depicting farms and houses of all kinds across Sweden, from the company Svenska Aero-Bilder AB.

In the 2014 annual report, Arkiv Digital highlighted a new trend among younger users: They are less inclined to sift through large volumes of documents and expect instead easy searchability; otherwise, they tend to give up.

[29] The same year, Arkiv Digital initiated collaborations with various genealogy associations to create searchable name indexes for all of Sweden's birth, marriage, and death records.

In November 2019, Arkiv Digital added the feature of creating cloud-based family trees, manually or by uploading a gedcom file.

The purpose of this was to connect subscribers’ genealogical research directly with the company's digitized historical records and index entries.