Does Reaper have noise reduction?
In the Mode window of the ReaFIR tool, select Subtract, and put a tick into the Automatically build noise profile box. Now hit the Space bar on your keyboard (which will play the audio, which is just the noise at this point). You'll hear it for a second and then it will be gone. That's ReaFIR getting rid of the noise.
Does Reaper have a noise gate?
Reaper's ReaGate has hidden talents that make it much more than a simple noise‑reduction facility. In my view, a lot of DAW users unduly neglect the humble gate at mixdown, dismissing it as merely an outmoded noise‑reduction utility.