I wanted to style the anchor tags being output by wp_get_archives that were to be displayed on my home.php page…
Michael’s solution worked perfectly
Thanks Michael!
add_filter( 'get_archives_link', 'add_css_class_to_wp_get_archive_links' );
function add_css_class_to_wp_get_archive_links( $link ) {
$link = str_replace( 'href', 'class="archive_link" href', $link );
return $link;
}