What's the best way to go about doing this (not myself, but paying for it)? Is it very costly? Any help would be appreciated.
Are you talking about a reel of film? I had some 8mm film copied to DVD at National Camera Exchange and it was reasonable - sorry, but I don't remember the price. Their process was to copy it to DV tape and then to DVD. I stopped them at the DV process and finished the copying to DVD myself.