Hi @Antonio Coppola ,
This seems like a viable approach; you can refer to the case below to replace the license:
Migration from Exchange Online to Microsoft 365 Business Standard Exchange
If you are still worried about the loss of emails, you can export all emails to PST for backup.
Export or backup email, contacts, and calendar to an Outlook .pst file
Best regards,
Shaofan Lv
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