A system described herein may generate a group of distributed ledgers that are each associated with a respective set of ledger parameters, receive a data item that is associated with a set of attributes, identify a distributed ledger that is associated with ledger parameters that meet the set of attributes, and record the data item to the distributed ledger that is associated with ledger parameters that meet the particular set of attributes. The system may determine that a set of archival parameters, associated with a particular distributed ledger, have been met; and may remove the particular distributed ledger from the group of distributed ledgers based on determining that the set of archival parameters, associated with the particular distributed ledger, have been met. Nodes that maintain the group of distributed ledgers may remove ledger data, associated with the removed distributed ledger, from one or more storage resources associated with the nodes.