Ansible is definitely worth exploring. As usual, there are a million tutorials on YouTube that will walk you through a quick deployment and some basic playbooks, but if you want a more fulsome understanding and deeper overview, I’d look at Techworld with Nana’s Ansible course. She’s extremely thorough, and she has a bunch of other videos that might give you some ideas on how to clean up your lab, especially since you’re starting fresh.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendation!