Joe Offer wrote: ...does anyone have any experience with GoDaddy and how I can get email at a reasonable price from them without having to buy into Microsoft 365?

You don't have to have your website and email hosted by the same provider, though it's obviously convenient. (The DNS record can point http and email to different places.)

I would find a company that provides the email service you want and ask them. You may be better off with a small hosting company so you can actually talk to them.

It sounds like the website is basically OK so you just need to patch it and maybe add a page or two occasionally. But if it's using php you need to know why it is. Was it built with a tool that generated php by default, or does it have active content - e.g. a database of members?

If you only want a simple website (webserver only - no php. database, or Wordpress etc) they might do that cheaper than Go Daddy.

I thought recently that I might offer to take over an organisation's website. It was a mess, it needed redeveloping. I concluded WordPress was the way to go - I already knew it as a blogger. In the end I didn't. (And I have time - you probably don't.)