  Current and future continuum surveys being undertaken by the new generation
of radio telescopes are now poised to address many important science questions,
ranging from the earliest galaxies, to the physics of nearby AGN, as well as
potentially providing new and unexpected discoveries. However, how to
efficiently analyse the large quantities of data collected by these studies in
order to maximise their scientific output remains an open question. In these
proceedings we present details of the surveys module for the Broadband Radio
Astronomy Tools (BRATS) software package which will combine new observations
with existing multi-frequency data in order to automatically analyse and select
sources based on their spectrum. We show how these methods can been applied to
investigate objects observed on a variety of spatial scales, and suggest a
pathway for how this can be used in the wider context of surveys and large
samples.
