Systems and methods for intelligent digital item discovery and machine learning-informed handling of digital items and digital item governance

A machine learning-based method of computing in-migration classifications for and migrating items of digital content, the method comprising:

• accessing a digital content corpus comprising a plurality of distinct items of digital content within a source data storage system;
• in response to accessing the digital content corpus, for each distinct item of digital content of the plurality of distinct items of digital content:
• (i) computing, via one or more digital content machine learning classification models, an in-migration content classification inference;
• (ii) identifying one or more automated digital content handling tasks of a plurality of distinct digital content handling tasks based on the in-migration content classification inference;
• (iii) executing the one or more automated content handling tasks identified for each of the plurality of distinct items of digital content, wherein executing the one or more automated content handling tasks includes:
• (a) designating a storage location within a target data storage system based on the in-migration content classification inference;
• and
• (b) migrating a respective item of digital content from the source data storage system to the designated storage location within the target data storage system.