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I just went through one such archive and individually saved whole stories as HTML files, then converted to mobi in Calibre, then realized they didn't display properly on my Kindle so went back and recovered to azw3. Do you have a similar approach? Or am I missing something?
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I have about 33,000 items, very heavy on "pulp and prior" short pieces of the mystery or science fiction variety. I haven't kept track, but a large proportion came in as text/rtf files or saved htmls. Even great resources like Gutenberg and Roy Glashan's Library that do offer epubs often have very poor files from an e-reader device standpoint...they look like what I'd have if I just hit "convert" with a text file.
So I've learned to edit. With an arsenal of saved searches and my own css files, its amazing what you can do in just a few minutes. When I started editing, I might spend a day or two on some rocky file...after the learning curve, the same result can be had in 10 or 20 minutes. Calibre Rocks!
New purchased books I usually edit gently. Why do publishers try and make an e-book look like the paper version? I just can't read a quote in 7 point type.
I store everything as epub. I have Kindles, and recently, a Kobo Forma. I just convert as I want to read a piece....azw3 for the Kindle.