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Q: Do accounts/channels that have been inactive for years get purged automatically?

Used to have some stuff there, not sure if it's worth the time to find the correct emails/passwords.

Looks like inactive accounts are removed, NickServ doesn't know me anymore.

Yep, same, thanks! NickServ didn't know any of the usernames I think I had.

Piggybacking off this, what's a good way to archive Freenode content? I think I may still have some content on there from over a decade ago

You're probably thinking of the wrong service. Freenode is an IRC chat network, not a web site or other service with permanently stored "content".