I am unfamiliar with pods, but I use CPT UI quite a lot. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think in this case you could use the term_description() function. You can target the specific taxonomy using the two optional parameters: <?php echo term_description($term_id, "your_taxonomy_term_slug"); ?>
If so this could be a duplicate of: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47841160/show-taxonomy-description-on-wordpress
I also found a closed GitHub issue about using get_terms_meta to get data from a Custom Taxonomy using Pods: https://github.com/pods-framework/pods/issues/5243
I know you said you were 100% on WP structure, however, for everyone else:
Archives file name examples in priority order:
taxonomy-your_taxonomy-term_slug.php
taxonomy-your_taxonomy.php
taxonomy.php
archive.php
index.php