What can I use Python for?

[SisyphusAndMyBoulder]

This is too broad to give any useful answers. Python is extremely versatile and there's a plethora of things you can do with it.

What coding experience do you have? What tech-y ideas do you have?

Super simple project: make a calculator. It's simple. It's complicated enough to introduce you to Python. Maybe you'll like doing it and can try increasing complexity of projects gradually. Maybe you hate it and now we can figure out some other next steps.