If you can find someone with QB installed for intervening years, yes you can step it up

Typically it will reliably load (use restore for the back up file, .qbb)  in a newer year version that is 3-4 years newer.  Then you make a back up, and restore that back up in yet a newer version.  Rinse and repeat for each newer version until you get current.

You can try restoring the present back up in a version newer than 3-4 years, but I would not hold up much hope on making a jump in years more than 3-4/