Compensating for lead resistance.

I've been wondering what I can extend my sensor with and I thought about phone cables, they have 4 wires in them so I could just use those?? All I have now is these ~15cm long female to female connectors that look like they're out of a computer but no computer shop knows what they are.

Any advice on soldering the phone lines to my sensor? I want about 3-5m of cable to extend my dht11 or dht22.