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He doesn't care about that. He wants the speakership so he can exert additional pressure toward making certain problems go away for Trump and himself.
He wants to be in a position to make the next coup attempt succeed.
So do 199 other Republicans.
The House won't really be able to affect Trump's legal woes, since at least one of them is beyond the reach of even the federal courts. What he'd do with the speakership is call impeachment votes for Biden every week, then prattle on about how it's somehow the Democrats' and RINO's faults that the votes never succeed.
Basically, he would try to act like some kind of Conservative strong-man to win political theatre points.
Lacking the authority over state level legal proceedings hasn't stopped Jordan from trying to exert pressure over Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis. It's not about what he can do within the bounds of the law. He's already tried it without the speakership. The speakership just gives him more weight to throw around and makes it just a little harder to impose accountability on him.
Oh, sure. It's practically a given that he'll try ~~and continue to fail~~ to exert authority over things beyond his jurisdiction. But that's the "political strong-man" act I was referring to, and even with his weak attempts to affect the state cases, I don't expect that sort of behavior to stop while he still breathes.
It doesn't matter to him if he ultimately succeeds, because the point is to make a show to his base that he still swears fealty to the Orange Oaf.