Creating a new RELEASE branch

So we want to implement branches as described in this article:

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And the automatically protected branch names:

https://docs.thinkwisesoftware.com/docs/sf/overview#:~:text=corresponding%20runtime%20configuration.-,Protect%20a%20branch%E2%80%8B,remove%20protection%20as%20needed.,-You%20can%20recognize

In our current situation, we have feature branches with origin DEVELOP, with origin MAIN. How can we create a branch RELEASE between DEVELOP and MAIN?

Let’s say we roll-up all our branches back to the main and archive them.  Then we can create a RELEASE branch from the main, but then we can’t create a branch named DEVELOP from the release branch, since there is already a archived branch DEVELOP. And we can’t rename it either.

Some advice?