The Corporation has today signed a deal with the British Film Institute (BFI) to allow the public to access their respective audio, film and TV archives.
It has yet to be decided if the venture, which is in early planning stages, will resemble axed Project Kangaroo, the proposed VoD venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide.
Without Kangaroo, the BBC's VoD provision extends largely to access to most of its TV shows up to seven days after first broadcast.
Today's deal aims to develop opportunities to explore new ways of making BBC and BFI archive content and material available to UK audiences.
Programme content and potential advertising models are also yet to be decided, but the UK broadcaster has not ruled out third-party or commercial partnerships.
The first stage of the non-exclusive partnership has been formalised by the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), which outlines key strategic thinking, including public access, rights management and digitisation.
Both the BBC and BFI have revealed that, in time, they will look to work with other public archives throughout the UK to develop the project further.
The deal is being overseen by BBC director of archive content Roly Keating and BFI director Amanda Nevill.
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