thank you it'll help my endgame out a ton

Hi Drakesdman
Get two bishops against his rook.
1 Bg2xNc6, forces …Rd8xRd2 (as …Be8xBc6?? Rd2xRd8 will mate).
2 Bc6xBe8, Rd2-d8 to protect his a-pawn
3 Be8-b5 and Black will advance his King and K-side pawns but White has some counter play

Generally, General, when you have two or more options for your army, with not much between them to help you to make a choice, I would suggest that you survey the rest of the board to see which option would greatest benefit your other men.
In this position Black is winning as he has two extra pawns and only two pawn islands compared to White's shattered pawns in four islands.  Easier to defend his pawns than you can yours, and his pawns can assist each other in their march up the board in the end game without needing the assistance of their larger men.  So for white, exchanges are bad if they result in less men for White.  Your men have a lot to do and protect, the more men White has, the better.  So the option of exchanging to result in his R versus your two bishops is best.
Taking Black's R and going Bf4-b8 will not win you a Q-side pawn due to …NxR and …a7-a6.
If you take his R how are you to defend you pawn on a4 from his Bishop?

The option of 2 Bf4xRd2 is not good:
1 Bg2xNc6, forces 1…Rd8xRd2 (as …Be8xBc6?? Rd2xRd8 will mate).
2 Bf4xRd2, Be8xBc6  but now your bishop defends the a5 square so:
3 a4-a5 and Black will exchange or play…b6-b5.  Black will later be advancing his K-side pawn majority with his K and should win the end- game fairly easily.
So, although White can whittle the material down to a bishop each, the real advantage in this position is Black's superior pawn numbers and its structure.  That's his main asset, one which White cannot really affect.  White can then only win by a devastating attack.
In this option line for White (not the best) it provides an example of strategy in a worse position: So, instead of exchanging, why not avoid that and fight and hope for some mistake to come from Black?  Mistakes are common in Chess.  No one wins unless the other guy makes them.
So, for a Chess fighter, maybe 1 Rd2-b2, Rd8-d1+  2 Bg2f1, Nc6-e7  2 c4-c5, b6xc5  3 Kg1-g2, Be8xa4? 4 Rb2-b8+, Ne7-c8  5 Rb8xNc8+, Rd1-d8  6 Rc8xRd8+, Ba4-e8  7 Rd8xBe8 Mate.  Looking vaguely at the board with his main focus on his attacking you, Black may be aware that his back rank is covered by all three of his men.  He is right, but he is wrong as that does not make him safe if you are aggressive.
When needing a major blunder by Black, this is just about the only way for White to win this game if White made an error by 1 Bg2xNc6, Rd8xRd2  2 Bf4xRd2.  But White must provide the opportunity for Black to go wrong.  The way to do that in such circumstances is not necessarily to exchange, but to attack.

get a bishop and knight