Audio-visual collections in Australia and around the world include significant recordings of Australian indigenous languages. Older analogue recordings are being digitised but not many have content metadata or annotation added. Newer documentation programs are digital and some have high standards of metadata and annotation. Indigenous languages are nearly all highly endangered and inadequately documented, so many recordings are in great danger of becoming meaningless to future generations. In Australia many Indigenous people are assisting to document recordings through their own bodies like Regional Indigenous Language Centres, and using them to create educational materials which will help keep their heritage alive. In some cases materials from repositories are simply returned to communities but in the absence of proper archiving or documentation this can be ineffective. In other cases archives are set up in local communities but the infrastructure and expertise needed to maintain such operations is beyond local capacities. An alternative is to build an on-line central repository which can provide materials to local and regional centre as needed. which is the concept being piloted by OLCAP. The Max-Planck Institute’s Nijmegen archive associated with DOBES assisted in setting up a server at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Centres in Katherine serving the Victoria River District, Northern Territory and at Lockhart River in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland are linked in, to provide upload/download for Indigenous users. This paper describes the early stages of the project in 2007-8 and where it is heading.