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In time, the league hopes to join the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball. With the NACSB comes all the pomp and financial support of being recognized by Major League Baseball. The eight members of the esteemed association are recognized as some of the best summer collegiate baseball leagues in the United States. Sanctioning the Lewis & Clark Baseball League would fill a void in the heartland of the country; North Carolina is currently the westernmost state with a team in the NACSB.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision run a regular screening programme in the 107-seat cinema of content from the archive's collection. The cinema is also used for educational screenings and can be hired by community organisations and groups. In 2016 the archive itself described the cinema as uncomfortable, cold and not large enough.

The parent company of the LCBL the Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen has its next stop planned for Denver, Colorado. Mahrt plans to take the success of the St. Louis league back to the place where he attended law school (University of Denver). Branded as the Thin Air Baseball League, play is slated to begin in 2016.

A gallery space operated in the Taranaki Street building and featured regularly changing exhibitions.

Mahrt and Clites have ambitions of taking their baseball brand to Australia for a winter league, and to Prague, Czech Republic for a college recruiting showcase camp. Both endeavors plan to be operational by 2018.

A news report at the time of Rebecca Elvy's appointment as Chief Executive in 2015, noted that Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision had an extensive range of film-related memorabilia including scripts, advertisements, posters and props, costumes and animation cells which the archive was working to make available via public display. "We want to find a way to share that with the public. There's lots of things that people aren't aware of that they can come take a look at" Ms Elvy said. However the gallery closed in 2015, with the final exhibition highlighting the Pacific Films production company. The exhibition's title was Don't Let It Get You, a reference to the film of the same name.

Selected titles in the collection can be viewed in the Media Library at the Taranaki Street site. In 2016 the archive noted that the library contained predominantly video formats which were becoming obsolete.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision operates medianet, a digital video resource that provides access to a small curated selection of film and TV items at sites across New Zealand. In 2012 medianet had 915 moving image titles available. The number of medianet sites dropped from seventeen in 2016 to thirteen in 2018.

Kiosks allow the viewer to browse by category, decade, title or through descriptive tags, and view full-length videos at full screen quality. Playlists provide curated sets of videos of particular interest to local communities. As of 2018, medianet operated in Lower Hutt, Hawke's Bay, Otago, Manawatu, Nelson, Northland, Rotorua, Southland, Taranaki, Tauranga, Waikato and Wellington.

Mediasphere is promoted as Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's education service. The film-centric website was launched in 2013 and is promoted by the archive as a site where teachers, parents and students can "watch extracts from films, and start thinking about, writing about and making their own films". The site features resources for English, Social Sciences, History, Geography and Media Studies students and teachers.

The Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Maggie Barry launched Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's new website in January 2016. For the first time, the website brought together the collections of the former RNZ Sound Archive and the New Zealand Film Archive. The online catalogue was powered by Supplejack - DigitalNZ's tool for aggregating content.

In 2014 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision noted that the Ministers of Broadcasting and Arts, Culture and Heritage had an expectation that a substantial proportion of the archive's collections be digitised and made available online by 2018. The archive's Statement of Intent 2015-2018 aimed for 20,000 items online. However the Strategic Plan 2016-2024 published in mid-2016 noted that there was still only a small amount of the collection available online.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's Strategic Plan 2016-2024 published in mid-2016, noted significant issues with the archive's acquisition and deposit activities. The Strategic Plan noted the Selection and Acquisition Policy was out of date, there were three different deposit agreements and there was a significant backlog of material that hadn't been accessioned/catalogued. There were also a large number of depositors who had been promised a copy of their items but had not received them - with some waiting over ten-years.

In 2012 the New Zealand Film Archive noted in a document to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage that the archive not only wanted to combine the existing national collections of film, television and radio but potentially enlarge the archive's mandate by collecting recorded music, oral histories, computer gaming and new audiovisual media.

In February 2017 a revised Selection and Acquisition Policy was published, broadening the scope of what the archive collected. This included film, television, radio, sound, digital, moving image and sound works created by New Zealand artists, musical works, oral histories, software, live broadcasts, recordings of meetings and recordings of nature such as bird-life. The archive would also continue to collect equipment, documentation and supporting material - photographs, posters, costumes, books, publicity material etc.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision accepts material on deposit. The depositor can withdraw material at any time, with the rights pertaining to the material unchanged by the act of depositing with the archive.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has three layers of rights clearance: the depositor, the work's copyright holder and the cultural values of iwi and Māori. The archive undertakes to honour the wishes of all rights holders.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision measures itself against the internationally agreed standards of the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA).

In its Selection and Acquisition Policy, the archive undertakes to store collection items in optimum conditions to ensure their long-term survival, document items so that they can be easily found and make them accessible in a way that does not compromise their long-term preservation. In 2012 the archive noted how it had attracted international interest for "its innovative approach to low-cost, high-quality collection storage using technology adapted from the horticulture sector".

Ngā Taonga's 2016/17 Annual Report noted that only 56% of the collection was held in best practice storage conditions, and a 2017 report from the archive to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage noted that the entire film collection was stored in conditions that it considered was below standard. The former Sound Archive's acetate disc collection was also stored in below standard conditions.