We establish in this paper several descriptions of Kato type semi-B-Fredholm( \(\hbox{B}_{+}\) -Fredholm or \(\hbox{B}_{-}\) -Fredholm) and semi-B-Browder( \(\hbox{B}_{+}\) -Browder or \(\hbox{B}_{-}\) -Browder) linear relations in Banach spaces. These generalize the corresponding results of Cvetkovic and Zivkovic-Zlatanovic (Complex Anal Oper Theory 11:1425–1449, 2017) for bounded operators. We also study the interrelations between semi-B-Fredholm linear relations and semi-B-Browder linear relations. Among other things, we show that a linear relation T is \(\hbox{B}_{+}\) -Browder (resp. \(\hbox{B}_{-}\) -Browder) if and only if T is \(\hbox{B}_{+}\) -Fredholm (resp. \(\hbox{B}_{-}\) -Fredholm) and T (resp. the adjoint of T) has the SVEP at 0. We also consider as an application, the study of B-Fredholm \(2\times 2\) upper-triangular linear relation matrices.