There are Conditional Tags for this: is_archive() and is_category() respectively. For a custom post type archives you could use is_post_type_archive(). There are many conditional tags available, see above linked codex page. To determine the blog archive you have to additionally check for the post type post, take a look at this question and the answers for more useful information.
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