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Les archives de nos ancêtres, j'aimerais en discuter.

Les archives de nos ancêtres, j'aimerais en discuter.
The archives of our ancestors, I would like to discuss them.
From Lesson 232:The pronoun 'en' with verbs (en)·French

Questions & Answers about Les archives de nos ancêtres, j'aimerais en discuter.

Why do we use en here instead of les to mean 'them'?
In English, we say 'to discuss [something]', but in French, the verb is discuter de quelque chose. Whenever you replace an inanimate object or idea introduced by the preposition de (here, des archives de nos ancêtres), you must use the pronoun en.
Why does en go right before discuter instead of in front of aimerais?
When you have a conjugated verb followed by an infinitive like aimerais + discuter, the object pronoun usually goes right before the infinitive it logically attaches to. You want to discuss them, so en goes directly before discuter.
Why start the sentence with Les archives de nos ancêtres instead of just saying J'aimerais discuter des archives?
Moving the topic to the very beginning of the sentence is a common habit in spoken French. It sets up the subject you want to talk about, and then you use a pronoun like en in the main sentence to refer back to it. It sounds very natural and adds emphasis.
How can I tell if aimerais is the future tense or the conditional?
It is in the conditional, meaning 'would like'. You can tell because it uses the future stem (aimerai-) but adds the imperfect ending (-s). If it were the future tense ('I will like'), it would be j'aimerai without the -s at the end.

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