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My team has (not entirely consistently) tried to encourage people to use the "raise hand" button in the video call software if someone would like to speak. The currently person talking can either pause, or finish up what they're saying and then hand things over to the person who raised their hand.

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Yes, that is a good method. But some are oblivious, and again, it comes down to the meeting runner to enforce that. "I need to cut in here, Justin has had his hand raised for some time and I want to address his points or questions before we wander away from the topic." Again, meeting running/manager needs to be firm. The people that drone on and on are frequently oblivious to everything except what they want to say next.

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