Hello Brent,
In your case, Meta Box helps you to create custom post types and you can create more articles under that post type, like the Post of WordPress. You will need to use other plugins or custom code to show them in the frontend, search, filter, optimization ...
Instead of creating everything from scratch, you can use some Knowledge Base plugins and focus only on building content, output arciles in the fronted is easier.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-knowledge-base-plugins-for-wordpress-compared/