The Royal College of Art is, this year, celebrating 40 years of animation graduates. In that time, more than 800 students have graduated from the animation MA, with an extraordinarily diverse range of work. In this talk I want to share with you some of what my colleagues and I have been doing in the last two years around building a collection of the RCA films from the last 40 years. I want to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that we have encountered while working on building an animation collection in an art school context, and I hope to offer a glimpse into the wonder, colour, and labour that this collection bursts with.