How do I clean up the old history files?

1. question

This directory of mine is so big that every time I take a backup it causes the backup file to be huge, I go to check the directory and there are a lot of historical directory files in the directory, can I delete these historical directory files and will this cause problems with the rancher cluster?

root@c5864efffa67:/var/lib/rancher/management-state/rke# ls -ll | more
total 472952
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 11  2021 rke-000001266
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 25 12:26 rke-000005275
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 20 03:06 rke-000012782
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 11:34 rke-000018365
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb  9  2023 rke-000021740
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul  2 15:33 rke-000026984
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 08:47 rke-000032606
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 20 08:09 rke-000033798
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 23:13 rke-000052203
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 17:07 rke-000076266
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 15 23:05 rke-000084607
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 25 12:14 rke-000091991
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 23 04:55 rke-000093978
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 25 12:05 rke-000095384
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 28 20:51 rke-000104240
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep  7  2021 rke-000105852
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 12 18:16 rke-000106583
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 24  2021 rke-000111613
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 14:46 rke-000113356
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul  4 02:43 rke-000117817
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 08:23 rke-000137218
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 23 09:04 rke-000139025
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 25  2022 rke-000142651
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul  1 23:18 rke-000165329
...

2. information

rancher version : 2.4.8

My rancher is deployed via docker