How to move old messages 'away' but be easy to come back?

My message store is huge... years many things still there even after the removal of most useless things.

I would like to move it in one archive 'loading' at the start of Thunderbird, but enough to be easily retrievable.

It would be the contents of the subfolders under about 4 accounts in the left navigation panel

"I want to put it in a spare closet and roll it in a closet nearby."

Is there a way to do this?

I see two options.

Either:
You could save the e-mails in .eml format to a folder on your ex: desktop.
then when you double-click to open one of these emails, computer should use Thunderbird to open in a new window.
You can already do this, right click on the email and choose ' Save as '.
However, a much simpler method using an addon called ImportExporttools.
You can get the addon from here:

Download downloads folder or office

How to install:
In Thunderbird
Tools > icon menu or modules > Modules
Click on the gear icon, and then select 'Install the Addons file'
Locate the file and click Open
Restart Thunderbird.

Right click on the folder > ImportExporttool > export all Messages in the folder > Eml format
See the pictures below

This means that emails are not stored in Thunderbird, but they use Thunderbird to open.

Or
(and Thunderbird must be closed for this).
You can create another profile folder in Thunderbird and don't use it to store the archive stuff.
Create the profile using the Profile Manager and call it for example: "archived".
Profile information manager including how to create a shortcut icon:

then copy the contents of the original profile in this new profile name overwrite the files and folders.
So actually, you have two profiles of different names, but containing the same information.

Start of the 'Archived' profile
Go "offline" immediately - click 2 blue screen icon in the lower left status bar, it will turn into black screen icon 2 = offline.
Then access the account settings.
Tools > accounts settings
or
Right-click on the name of the e-mail account in the folders pane, and then select "settings".
In "server settings".
Uncheck the "check for new messages at startup '.
Uncheck "validate new messages every x minutes".
So pop also uncheck: automatically download new messages'
Click OK.

Then set the parameters so that the archived profile always opens in "offline" mode
Tools > Options > advanced > network and disk space tab
or
Menu icon > Options > Options > advanced > network and disk space tab

Click on the button "offline."
Uncheck ' follow automatically detected State online.
Select: 'offline '.
under "download messages for use in offline mode when going offline.
Select 'no '.
Click OK
Click OK

Now that the profile should look like no new messages.

You can use "Profile Manager" shortcut to start Thunderbird and select profile on startup.
In the Profile Manager window:
Select the name of the profile
Uncheck the "use selected without asking the startup profile.
Click on "start Thunderbird.

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