What is SVG?
SVG is a drawing rather than a grid of pixels: shapes, paths and text described in XML, so it stays sharp at any size. That makes it right for logos and icons and useless for photographs. Converting it to a raster format fixes the size it will ever be.
What is TIFF?
TIFF is the archival and print format - lossless, high bit depth, and flexible enough to hold multiple pages in one file. Scanners, publishing workflows and document archives lean on it heavily. Browsers have never displayed it, which is why it is offered here as a target rather than a source.