If you're approaching history tangentially from a hard science, which provides the best job opportunities and/or is most needed? Statistics (is that still a hard science?) Biology? Chemistry? Something more specific?
As others have said, there are several areas where the hard sciences can benefit you heavily and give you a major advantage in your field:
Anyways, those are my recommendations. I'm actually a double-degree student myself (B.S. Chemistry, B.A. History).
Statistics definitely if you wish to enter quantitative history. It is history told according to the numbers, so statistics is required.
Physics/chemistry/engineering if you want to dovetail into archaeology. These fields are important to conservation, reconstruction, drafting, and designing new instruments.
Computer Science and skills in Geographic Information Systems. Field mapping and global positioning are rapidly becoming used for all sorts of datasets. Throw in some programming and coding skills and you should be set.
It depends what subjects you plan to study. If you include anthropology as well as pure history, quite a few can help.
Historical linguistics is surprisingly hard and useful.
Soil geology, zoology to examine animal remains, botany to examine plant remains and/or pollen, and so on can help reconstruct archaeological sites.
Paleoclimatology.
Geology can also help identify when and how much soil erosion took place. Some scholars such as Michael Jones in The End of Roman Britain have attrbute mass famines and civilization collapse to soil erosion.
Zoology may also help understand the extent of the Plague of Justinian, since there have been disputes over the presence of Black Rats in Britain and other parts of northern Europe.
Anything which can shed light on demography can be useful.
Anything which can shed light on trade routes. Tin was widely traded in the Bronze Age. Amber continued much later, but if you can identify Baltic vs. North Sea Amber, that can help understand European trade routes.
I did my undergrad in genetics and grad school in history, and it’s been incredibly useful for a lot of applications. Biogeographical ancestry inference (eg Ancestry.com nonsense), historical plagues and epidemics, race as a cultural vs biological lens, etc.