Linking a document library to a Sharepoint/Access 2013 App

I am not a developer but I am playing with building an app within SharePoint 2013. I am an office 365 subscriber. I am attempting to build an app that would act as a simplified CRM for SharePoint. I would like to add attachments like emails
and pdfs to the records I create and it appears the attachment feature is not available within the app environment. I also can't figure out how to link a document library and it's records to an app as I thought this might be a work around. So here
are my two questions:
Is there a way to add attachments directly into a sharepoint/access web app within sharepoint?
If not is there a way to connect a document library to the sharepoint access web app as a work around?
If you have any other ideas they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Ben

I know this is a year late, but for anyone still searching for this, I found a solution that works well for me:
1. Create the table in the Access Web App that you wish to attach files to.
2. Use Sharepoint Business Connectivity Services to read the data in the background database for your Access Web App.
3. Create a document library in Sharepoint, adding an external data column type, using the content type you created in Business Connectivity Services.
You can now specify an access web app table row from within your document library in sharepoint.
4. In Access, link a table to the sharepoint document library.
5. Edit the default created datasheet from your linked table, to include the fields you wish to display. Include the field that is used for your field name in the document library - it has a hyperlink included in it.
6. In the view form for your original table (step 1), add a subview, specifying the datasheet from step 5 and linking by the field id that should now be shared between your original table and the linked sharepoint document library.
You can now see the files attached to the table item, including a hyperlink in the file field.
7. Add a hyperlink to your view form to the upload.aspx in the document library.
8. For added ease, you can pass the row id of your original table to the external content id of the document library within the url. This takes added javascript work on editform, but it makes it so that the user does not need to select the external
data. You can even hide the field if you wish, but I kept it visible so that I can edit within the library.
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