The big yellow wrapped ones with lots of leads, are from switching power supplies, and probably would have 170DC applied, ans get stepped down to 12V or so, but as other have said, at 50kHz type frequencies. Not the same as a linear transformer.
I have a signal generator, that makes it easy to test normal, linear transformers. But a few things I've noticed over the years, probably all in the video
)The DC resistances can give clues about the the output voltages of say a tapped winding, but that's assuming the wire gauge is all the same. And once you get a feel for it could can often tell the primary side from the secondary side by knowing the resistances and if it's a step up or down transformer.
)If you have a good step down transformer, just apply it's LV to windings of the unknown trans, and just measure the outputs, to get the ratio's
For load testing windings, (I already knew or figured out the AC mains input winding), I get the open circuit voltages, then measure the voltages with smaller and smaller resistors. Ending up with big high power resistors, and high currents. I don't test very long with them, in case I pull too much current and melt the wires.
Some people do short circuit test of a transformer, that's ok sometimes, but for an old unknown transformer, I'd be too worried about cooking some insulation or even melting the wires, if there's no external current limiting to keep that from happening.
From that it's easy to plot the load-line response of the transformer.