diff --git a/docs/release_notes.rst b/docs/release_notes.rst
index 91c56adec..ec0fbcfbc 100644
--- a/docs/release_notes.rst
+++ b/docs/release_notes.rst
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ Bug Fixes
 Major Dependency Updates
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+Quality of Life Improvements
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+* We added a ``sources`` parameter to ``pudl.metadata.classes.DataSource.from_id()``
+  in order to make it possible to use the `pudl-archiver
+  <https://www.github.com/catalyst-cooperative/pudl-archiver>`__ repository to
+  archive datasets that won't necessarily be ingested into PUDL. See `this PUDL archiver
+  issue <https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative/pudl-archiver/pull/506>`__ and PRs
+  :pr:`4003` and :pr:`4013`.
+
 .. _release-v2024.11.0:
 
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/pudl/metadata/classes.py b/src/pudl/metadata/classes.py
index a8357f6be..bb73ca298 100644
--- a/src/pudl/metadata/classes.py
+++ b/src/pudl/metadata/classes.py
@@ -1039,22 +1039,22 @@ def from_field_namespace(
     ) -> list["DataSource"]:
         """Return list of DataSource objects by field namespace."""
         return [
-            cls(**cls.dict_from_id(name))
+            cls(**cls.dict_from_id(name, sources))
             for name, val in sources.items()
             if val.get("field_namespace") == x
         ]
 
     @staticmethod
-    def dict_from_id(x: str, sources: dict[str, Any] = SOURCES) -> dict:
+    def dict_from_id(x: str, sources: dict[str, Any]) -> dict:
         """Look up the source by source name in the metadata."""
         # If ID ends with _xbrl strip end to find data source
         lookup_id = x.replace("_xbrl", "")
         return {"name": x, **copy.deepcopy(sources[lookup_id])}
 
     @classmethod
-    def from_id(cls, x: str) -> "DataSource":
+    def from_id(cls, x: str, sources: dict[str, Any] = SOURCES) -> "DataSource":
         """Construct Source by source name in the metadata."""
-        return cls(**cls.dict_from_id(x))
+        return cls(**cls.dict_from_id(x, sources=sources))
 
 
 class ResourceHarvest(PudlMeta):