Escape Room prop feasibility

CrossRoads:
What turns the audio file on the SD card into audio? Need some kind of processor there.

Isn't that what the Arduino does? So the sketch would understand that once the sensors are activated, to play the file on the sd card and output it through the 3.5mm breakout board, which is connected to the sound bar (ala mp3 player hooked to external speaker) (?)...