Ekenvall contacted prominent women throughout Sweden asking them to donate materials for the archive and some of her earliest acquisitions included letters and diaries by Barbro Alving, Emilia Fogelklou, Åsa Moberg [sv] and Elin Wägner, among others.
The first publication produced by the Archive was Malmström's Kvinnliga präster, bibliografi över i Sverige tryckt litteratur (Female Priests, bibliography of literature printed in Sweden, 1958).
Five full-time librarians work to manage the collection, preserving and digitizing archival materials.
KvinnSam produces four databases: GENA, GREDA and JÄMDA have all been developed in collaboration with the Swedish National Secretariat for Gender Research.
The references in the databases are indexed with keywords chosen from a special list, in which the gender aspect is implicit.