Can I take program files off Performa 5260 to reload to later hardware?

We have a Performa 5260 (from 1996 or 97), OS 7.5.3, with specialised software for medical application. Need to upgrade to much later software, preferably current.
Can download to floppies but then need to copy to CD to upload into later model? Advice suggests "language needs to be translated to more current language". Cost of replacing the entire system is prohibitive, so if we had to do the Mac upgrade in several steps it would still be much less costly.
Suggestions MOST welcome, thank you!

Thank you, one and ALL, for your replies. I'm sorry not to have responded sooner. I'll make this post a general cover of the situation, then go back to answer the specifics where I can.
I'm a registered nurse and highly computer literate as an operator: Office, Word, Excel (am a spreadsheet queen according to my family!). At home we have PCs. But when it comes to the tricky questions I defer to my technical-brained husband.
I work for a Consultant Surgeon who specialises in Cancer work, including Breast and Bowel Cancer and other disorders. The Performa 5260 (manufactured in 1996) is part of a dedicated system, built by an Australian company for measuring muscle pressures by water perfused manometry. Unfortunately Neo-Medix no longer supports ano-rectal manometry, specializing now in urodynamics. I refuse to go into detail of what I do for obvious reasons! I hope that’s adequate information. – not too little and not too much!!
I’ve operated the machine since 1997 and know its workings intimately, except for anything under the cover
It is not in the budget to replace the system, for which we’ve had quotes for around $50,000 give or take $10,000-$20000 according to how many bells and whistles we want.
The option is to move the software to another Mac .. whichever available model will accept the software. This needs to happen before the Performa expires. It no longer has a printer and I’m using the last of our spare mouses! (or is it “mice”?) We do happen to have a second Performa, acquired from a colleague who converted to another system. But unfortunately the AnoMac software is configured differently from what we’re accustomed to, so hasn’t been helpful for anything other than spare parts for the rest of the apparatus.
Hence my call for help to this forum.
Many thanks again for all offerings. Between my technical-brained husband and our ultra-technical-brained American son-in-law in Seattle, the information will be carefully sifted and applied as appropriate! But neither of them knows a huge amount about Macs, as we’re all PC people.
There will be other questions I’m sure.
And I'll endeavour to answer specific questions on individual responses to my posts.

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