Disable (not delete) inactive locations

Pls advise if there is any way to disable the non-active location in branch/plant. We want to preserve the records in F41021 due to previous transactions used these locations, but currently it is not active. We only want to keep for reference purposes.

When user does search, these non-active locations tend to show up in the search as well. As the list grows, it gets more difficult to run thru all the records, so I wanted to disable the locations (or expire them). I know we can purge them off the system but we would not have any trace left, so I just want to de-activate them and no user should be able to use these locations.