Recovering data from decades old floppy disks

For the longest time, I’ve had a stack of old 3.5” floppy disks. At some point in the past years, I thought it would be fun to see what’s on them. But how do you do that on a modern PC? I hadn’t had an actual floppy drive for the longest time. There are two options: Get a USB floppy drive (cheap, easy) Get a floppy controller and a “proper” floppy drive I tried them both, mainly because I only…