Can I request an email of my text history?

Someone incredibly dear to me died in March. I had forgotten that until a couple of years ago, I was an iphone user and so all of our texts our hanging out in my Apple account. I just discovered them on an old, broken phone. While I still have an account, I no longer have an Apple device (that works- the old phone is pretty hard to read with how cracked the screen is). Is there a way I can verify my identity and get those texts sent to me in another format? Or a way I can access my account on a non-Apple device?