Radioactivity can be used for various purposes:

1)Tracers
2)Radiotherapy
3)Sterilisation
4)Archaelogy using carbon isotopes
Archaelogy:
In archaeology, radioactive isotopes are used to determine the age of a
sample, called Carbon Dating. Since the Carbon-
14 isotope is radioactive it has been used to assess the age of matter.
While living, a plant or animal renews carbon in its system. Once the object
dies, the amount of C-14 only changes as it decays into some other
material.
Carbon-14 isotopes undergoes a beta decay they decay to give Nitrogen
atom and a beta particle. The equation given below shows the beta decay
of Carbon-14

Now archaeologist use this concept to determine the age of any rock or an
artifact by measuring the ratio of number of atoms of a radioactive element
to those of its decay product in a sample.