How did you backup those items to the external drive? Did you manually copy them over, or did you use Time Machine or other backup software?
If you used Time Machine, then you will not be able to access those files as a Time Machine backup is meant to be accessed through macOS and the Time Machine software.
If you manually copied them to the external drive (the external drive is just a basic data drive), then you could install a paid third party HFS+ driver on Windows to access those files.
If you used some other backup app, then it depends on how the files are stored on the external drive by that third party backup app. If the backup app has a Windows version as well, then perhaps it will be able to access the files once you install a third party HFS+ driver and the Windows' version of the third party backup software. If the third party backup software just stored the backup plainly (basically just a data drive), then Windows may be able to see those items just by installing a third party HFS+ driver.
Paragon Software makes a third party Windows driver for accessing HFS+ volumes. I know there is another vendor as well, but I cannot recall their name at the moment.
If you want to share a drive with both macOS and Windows, then you should use Disk Utility on macOS to erase the whole physical drive as GUID partition and exFAT. This will allow both macOS & Windows read+write access to the drive. If you format the exFAT drive using Windows instead, then macOS may not be able to mount the volume because Windows will sometimes use a File Allocation Size which macOS does not understand. I recommend the exFAT option for drives shared between macOS & Windows as I dislike having third party drivers installed on my systems especially since any OS update/upgrade can break their functionality, plus third party drivers can make a system less stable and more susceptible to vulnerabilities.