There is quite a number of ways you could utilize named entity recognition (NER) and/or knowledge graphs (KGs). Ranging from extracting mentioned entities (to e.g. provide a quick access to all articles containing specific entity), to semantic search, to building a unified knowledge graph from text (unstructured) data you have. Cool thing about KGs is that they are based on open standards, so once you've built them out of the data you have - there's quite a few existing tools that (for the most part) work out-of-the-box with them.