For more than three decades, the Humanities Council of Washington D.C. has been collecting materials with historic or cultural significance. You can view most of them yourself with the click of a mouse at the DC Digital Museum, which has housed nearly 800 of the items since 2010. And to bring more into the fold, the DC Digital Museum is calling for more artifacts to add to its collection.

On June 11, the museum is bringing volunteers to the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop to help participants digitize items like photos, souvenirs, journal pages, and more. While attendees get a flash drive with their items, the materials also go into the DC Digital Museum.

The Humanities Council is asking that people bring four or five objects that “tell a story about you or your family.” Attendees will get to record a brief oral history about their contributions. Interested folks should RSVP.

They’ve been hosting events like these around the city since 2014, says Jasper Collier, curator of digital collections at Humanities D.C. While they initially focused on area veterans, they’ve broadened their search in recent years.

“A lot of people don’t think of the things they have in their collections as historic,” says Collier. Recent additions include old report cards from 1950s and 1960s D.C. Public Schools, a large collection of campaign buttons, pieces of old military uniforms, and medals. They’re looking for “anything that you can tell a story about. If it has a connection to you, it has some historic value,” he says.

The D.C. Public Library similarly has a Memory Lab that helps people digitize their personal collections.

Updated with comment from Jasper Collier.