Can my apple TV access an external harddrive

I want to transfer all my music and movies to free up space on my Mac and Macbook or do I just wait for cloud?

copy the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes music or media folder) to the external HD, launch iTunes while holding the option (⌥) key, click on choose library when prompted, and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external.
when done, you can delete the original files from your boot drive to make room.
note that iTunes on your computer needs to be running in order to feed the content to Apple TV.

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