add archival notice to README

This repository is being archived. Point readers at the standard-library
or community package that replaces it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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> [!IMPORTANT]
> **This repository is archived and no longer maintained.**
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> `Record` is a convenience layer over `map[string]any`. The type coercion
> it provides is covered more completely by existing libraries, and scanning
> into structs is usually the better approach.
>
> **Use instead:**
> - [`github.com/spf13/cast`](https://github.com/spf13/cast) — `cast.ToIntE`, `cast.ToStringE`, etc. for coercing an `any` to a concrete type.
> - [`github.com/jmoiron/sqlx`](https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx) or plain `database/sql` struct scanning when the source is SQL rows.
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# Go Record
Record stores mixed scalar data (Boolean, numeric, and string) and provides type-safe methods to retrieve it. It automatically casts values where possible.