Archiving mac mail onto a cd

I am trying for the first time to archive thousands of emails from Mac's "mail" program.  Can seem to drag them into Toast, as I used to do with Entourage, can't get Snow Leopard to burn them to cd under "File",  A "Burn Folder" will only accept the emails one at a time, and - as I wrote - I have thousands to copy and then delete from my active email.
I am not clear about archiving into an .mbox file.  Is this my solution?  Is it tightly packed and takes up substantially less room on my hard drive, but can be reimported if I need to look back?
Any assistance will be much appreciated, and noted.
Thanks,
Josh

Addendum:  typo, meant to say I CANNOT  drag them into Toast

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