Novel optoelectronic materials have the potential to revolutionize the ongoing green transition by both providing more efficient photovoltaic (PV) devices and lowering energy consumption of devices like LEDs and sensors. The lead candidate materials for these applications are both organic semiconductors and more recently perovskites. This Perspective illustrates how novel machine learning techniques can help explore these materials, from speeding up ab initio calculations toward experimental guidance. Furthermore, based on existing work, perspectives around machine-learned molecular dynamics potentials, physically informed neural networks, and generative methods are outlined.