If I understand what you mean by "Archive" correctly, I faced a similar problem when setting up my site. I write and publish one new article (on any topic under the sun that tickles my fancy) per night, 24/7, 365. At the moment, total post count is just over 500, but eventually the tally will be much higher than that--and I needed visitors to the site to be able to find pretty much anything I'd ever written, preferably without popping a blood vessel.

But I couldn't find a plugin that would even come close to doing what I wanted. There may be one, but I'd never worked with WordPress before, so...what to do?

In the end, what I did was simply set up a bunch of different topic category pages, calling them Indexes, so that the menu (at the top of the page, under the Featured Image) shows as follows: "...Critter Index...Employment Index...Fiction Index...etc...."

Some of the Indexes are actually Tables of Contents (or hybrid Index/Table combos), but when those pages are clicked, they start off with a bit of explanation.

Each new entry (post) is numbered sequentially in alphabetical order. At the end of each listing (post title), the word "LINK" is entered in all caps, bold, and hyperlinked to the post thus described.

It's clunky in the sense that each new post, inserted alphabetically in the appropriate Index page, does require me to manually renumber each and every post that comes after a new entry on a given page...but the end result is worth it, a dream to navigate for me and for my readers alike.

It would be nice to see a plugin developer (which I am most definitely NOT) take my concept and produce a plugin that would do what I've done, but with an automatic renumbering feature to eliminate the manual renumbering drudgery. Other than that, it's all good. In the meantime, I don't see why a similar system couldn't be used to Archive the WP Tavern posts: One page each for, "...2013 Archive...2012 Archive...etc...." It could be done without the renumbering hassle I frequently face, too; simply list the oldest post first in each year (with title so someone browsing the Archive would have a clue what each post was about).