The inheritance of red genes through study tour is a new phenomenon in recent years, which has important reference value for archives to develop red archives resources and build patriotic education bases. From the perspective of red study tour, the development and utilization of archival resources involves five dimensions: development subject, service object, development form, development content, promotion and feedback. An investigation on the cases of conducting red study tour in provincial and sub-provincial archives finds that there are some problems in the five dimensions mentioned above, such as weak external connections and collaboration, low matching degree of service object needs, flattened resource presentation forms, insufficient depth and breadth of resource processing, and lack of promotion and feedback channels. For the purpose of optimizing the development and utilization of archival resources in red study tour, it is necessary to achieve a strategic transformation from "unilateral supply to collaborative supply", "audience mode to user mode", "traditional narrative to digital narrative", "shallow development to story mining", and "one-way promotion to two-way interaction".