I'm interested of what kind of directory you are working on/researching. Can you please tell us more?
In the past I had a thread of now defunct or old suicide/pro choice sites after looking into ASH (inspired by their own archived sites/links and directory and I think it would be good to create an archives directory for historical and informational purposes for the users of this site and it may be comforting to some) but I deleted it due to paranoia and also worry that it would get into the wrong hands or people with bad intentions would view those sites and would probably track down and attempt to harass people
IF it/that is somehow possible as I believe some of these people are still alive/active not just from there but various other archived sites and groups also it was unfinished and quite unorganized and it only featured English and German links, websites, and blogs etc.
as of today I have a list of about maybe 30+ or less than or equal to 40 links (as in actual archived websites, blogs, newsgroups, and forums)
and when The Wayback Machine is back online hopefully by the end of the day or sometime tomorrow I can start looking for sites from different countries and languages (with the aid of my translator extension which is great because with the first list I had no idea there were extentions that could translate entire pages)
edit: that's just what I got from I believe 2 days and multiple hours of searching and going deeper and deeper into website and personal blog's personal directories and recommended links