How to move an icloud backup to my computer?

I have two old phone backups on icloud, taking up too much space.
1) can i move old backup files to a computer to increase available space on icloud?  how?
2) once I move old backup file elsewhere, is there any way to access the old photos without restoring to a device?  my old phones are gone but i want to access the photos...
thanks very much!

Hmmm, so in other words, if i'm not in a position to use the backup to restore back to the original device (i gave it away), i can only delete the files from iCloud to reduce the footprint, or keep them and buy more storage?
if i have a new device (though with its own set of new files), could I restore only the old photos from the backup to that new device?
...and if i can't do anything with the old backup files, is there any reason to keep it at all?
thx :>

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