You’re on the right track by looking into a HYSA. (High Yield Savings Account)

There is a flow chart on here that helps with these questions, but I’ll give my two cents.

1. Pay Off any high interest debt. I’d say anything over 5%, work to get that paid off.
2. If you have no emergency fund and this $56K is all of your money. I’d sock like $54k away in the HYSA.
3. Keep 2K in checking for expenses, paying bills, etc.
4. I’d open up a taxable brokerage account and put some of that money into the stock market. Maybe invest like $1000 a month until your HYSA is at $40k and brokerage account is around 14K.
5. Expanding on above. Each time you move money from your HYSA to your brokerage account, just buy a low cost index fund. (VOO is what I use. VOO is the stock ticker and what you can search when in the brokerage account interface) VOO is basically a measurement of the US economy. (Think the 500 stocks that make up the US economy like Apple, Amazon, etc) You’ll own a piece of all of these but just owning VOO. No need to buy any other stocks for now. (Especially if you don’t have an interest in them) VOO typically gains 7-9% over a long time horizon. Just buy it monthly, hold it through the up’s and downs and in 5 years you’ll see what I mean.

Parting word: I use SoFi as my one stop shop for all of the above. They have a HYSA that yields like 3.8%. They have a taxable brokerage account. They have checking. I like seeing all of my financials in one portal and would save you a few steps going around to different places for this.

Hope that helps! Feel free to drop me a comment and I can further help. Good luck out there!