Creative Commons, how do I properly use it?

Hey ya’ll, I hope you’re having a good weekend. I was planning & prepping my upcoming songs, making lists, schedules & all that good stuff. I realized one of the instrumentals I licensed only has a 1 year agreement period. My first idea is that I may use it as a promo song I upload to SoundCloud. My hope is that once agreement expires I can leave it on my SoundCloud with the Creative Commons attribute. I’m honestly not 100% sure one can do that. I’ve downloaded well-known instrumentals in the past, made a song and uploaded to SoundCloud with the Creative Commons license. As I learn more about music business I’m not entirely sure I can legally do any of that, even if I’m not claiming copyright credit. Any thoughts, knowledge or experience on this?

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