Question about gas fees

I have a myetherwallet wallet I created years ago to buy my first eth. I accessed it today for the first time since I created it and with my ethereum there is something called Livepeer (LPT). I looked it up and whatever, I don't care about it. Why I have it and how it got there is beyond me. It's worth about $12. I moved my ethereum to a hardware wallet and now want to swap the LPT to ethereum and get it out of the myetherwallet account. I can't seem to do anything with it. I looked it up and it seems without any ETH for gas I can't do anything about it. I moved $2 worth of ETH back into the wallet and it still states that I don't have enough for gas. Before I just abandon the free $12 how does one determine how much gas is needed? I looked it up at current rates and it seems I should only need like $0.12 but $2.00 in ETH isn't doing it. Any ideas out there before I just let it go? Thank you.