Moving files from one document library to another

I want to move all files which are 30 days old, from one library to another.
What is the best way to do this?
Shall I create a workflow for this or a timer job? I am not sure if we can do this using workflow because I think it works on events and here I need a process that will work continuously (for e.g. every hour or every day etc) and check for files which are
30 days older, and move to different document library (this target library will be in another site collection).
What do you say?

There are 2-approach I would recommend here,
Either Create SharePoint Timer Job OR Create Windows Service which runs every day and will check the document library for any documents satisfy the 30 days old criteria.
Personally I will always go for Windows service. Reasons are easy to build/install/less downtime and if you use framework like Topshelf then easy to debug. Also it allows you to have configuration for your SharePoint Site/Document library. Libraries like
Serilog allows you to have better structured logs created for your service easily. Multiple instances of the same service running on the same server.
There are few links I want to share with you for kind of similar discussion happened earlier,
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/96089/when-should-we-use-sharepoint-timer-job-and-when-windows-task-scheduler
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/sharepoint/en-US/abd71245-8f64-40ba-8861-a852893cd8d5/timer-job-vs-custom-windows-service
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/c87abaec-7cf2-4697-bf2d-31d235541598/sharepoint-timer-job-vs-windows-schedule-to-consume-web-service?forum=sharepointadminprevious
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