If we want to archive this we should close the open issues. From the GitHub help docs:
We recommend that you close all issues and pull requests, as well as update the README file and description, before you archive a repository
When a repository is archived, its issues, pull requests, code, labels, milestones, projects, wiki, releases, commits, tags, branches, reactions, and comments become read-only. To make changes in an archived repository, you must unarchive the repository first.
If we want to archive this we should close the open issues. From the GitHub help docs: