You should use one of the values configured in :ref:`COLLECTIONS_PATHS` for your path. This is also where Ansible itself will expect to find collections when attempting to use them.
Then try to use the local collection inside a playbook, for more details see :ref:`Using collections <using_collections>`
.._publishing_collections:
Publishing collections
@ -470,6 +485,8 @@ For operations where only one Galaxy server is used, i.e. ``publish``, ``info``,
collection. The install process will not search for a collection requirement in a different Galaxy instance.