[Haskell-beginners] Getting Stuff out of IO Handles

Hey everyone! This is probably a stupid question, but is there a way to get stuff out of a IO handle? If I do something with an IO handle, reading in data from a file for example and then do something with the data, is there a way to get the results out of the handle, comparable to the return in a do block? Or do all operations on the data have to happen inside the handle? Thanks Raf