The Plant Collections at the Atlanta Botanical Garden house 106,028 individual plants from 25,335 genetically unique accessions representing 12,096 taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties) from 276 plant families and over 1,800 genera. Most notably, ABG maintains the most diverse living collections of orchids (Orchidaceae) in the United States with 2,328 taxa. Other major foci of the Collections include rare, threatened, and endangered plants of the southeastern United States, plants of New Caledonia, tropical conifers, carnivorous plants, and neotropical blueberries. The ABG Plant Collections are divided into two separately managed collections. The Living Collection falls under the purview of the Horticulture & Collections Department, and the Conservation Collection is managed by the Conservation & Research Department. These two collections differ in their mission and intent. Whereas the Living Collection is intended for research, education, display, and public enjoyment, the Conservation Collections support research on rare and endangered species, safeguard globally and regionally imperiled species, and place an emphasis on long-term maintenance of population-level genetic diversity. The Conservation Collection also supports Metacollections that add safeguarding depth to collections of endangered plants. Use of the Collections by outside researchers is limited to those with existing knowledge of the collections. We have embarked on a multi-phase  project to (1) upgrade collections data to the Brahms botanical garden data management system, (2) share collections data via external data aggregators (e.g. GBIF, GGBN, iDigBio), (3) photograph and GPS map priority collections, and (4) update protocols related to collections management and research requests. This will enable collection information to be shared with the greater research community via outreach to professional botanical societies and on the Garden’s social media pages. We expect utilization of the collection to significantly increase and to allow for creative and impactful research to be done with plants in the collections.