The Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen is keen to make its rich cultural heritage and services known to as wide an audience as possible. To this end, it regularly participates in the ‘Archives Day’, which takes place every two years throughout Germany. On this occasion, and on request, the Landesarchiv offers guided tours of the individual buildings and workshops in the Technical Centre.

The Landesarchiv has special offers for individual user groups. For family researchers, the East Westphalia-Lippe department of the Landesarchiv has been organising the Detmold Summer Talks since 2004 with the aim of bringing together genealogists, historians and archivists and stimulating interdisciplinary exchange. In order to promote cooperation with the staff of the state authorities, the Landesarchiv regularly organises so-called Behördentage. These are aimed at individual branches of the administration. In addition to a guided tour of the archive, the Authority Days offer an opportunity to discuss all questions relating to document management, disposal and archiving.

As houses of history, the departments of the Landesarchiv provide information on their historical heritage and the possibilities for its evaluation in lectures, exhibitions and publications. By publishing sources of significance to the history of the state, compiling thematic inventories and creating overviews of the archive holdings, the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen expands the source base for historical research. Its departments are diverse and closely linked to cultural institutions and associations in the region, with which they cooperate.

The Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen regularly reports on its work in annual reports. In addition to information about events and publications, the reports contain statistical data and explanations of the areas of responsibility, including cataloguing and provision, preservation, archival formation and use.

The Landesarchiv's annual reports are aimed at politicians and administrators as archive holders, but may also be of interest to users, as they also refer to newly catalogued holdings and current publications. The annual reports are available free of charge from the Landesarchiv.