Any of the commonly used WAV editors* will provide a graphical view of the waveform. Unless your barn is a terribly noisy environment, to the extent that the background noise is as loud or louder than people talking / horsing around, it should be fairly easy to identify the times when there's purely background noise v. something going on.
* Audacity (free), CD-Wave (inexpensive), Sound Forge, Samplitude SE (inexpensive), Audition, WaveLab, I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting.