How do I archive emails to a local Harddrive?

I would like to clean up and minimise my mail in and sent boxes by archiving the mails to some repository on a local hard drive. I would laos like to be able to access these later if needed without too much hassle. I am hoping the mail inbox will be smaller and the archive organised by year or so... Any advise welcome... I am also keen to see if the conversations link can remain in tact but perhaps that is asking too much?
Thanks in advance!

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