Archiving Some RAW Files to JPEG

I am a photography enthusiast. I shoot everything in RAW, including some recent vacation pictures. To me, pictures that have no "artistic quality" are not really worth the extra space of saving in RAW format, once I've edited the raw file. However, I like to shoot in RAW due to the many advantages of the format.
As an example, I am never going to go back and re-edit the pictures of my Aunt's dog running along the beach. They are nice pictures, but I am not going to do anything with them aside from email them. I would like to keep a copy of the picture, along with a rating and metadata, but I don't want to keep a Raw image I will have no use for in the future. Keeping it as part of my Aperture libary is important, as I would like to stay orgainized.
Other posts I've read often refer to how cheap storage is these days, and you should never delete a RAW. But keeping thousands of RAWs I will never use again, in a library that is backed-up in 2 or 3 places, ends up getting a little expensive.
Ideally, I would like a project to look like this:
3, 4, & 5 Star photos kept in RAW, 1 & 2 Stars archived as a high quality JPEG, with no Raw file kept. So that could mean that 50% of the project would be JPEG, thus saving a tremendous amount of space.
Does anybody else do this? Any suggestions on how I could accomplish this?
Thanks in advance for any help/feedback you can provide.
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Okay, I started playing around with this again, and I have kind have figured out a workaround, but it is tedious. Maybe somebody can help me make it easier, such as directions on how to create an Automator for this function, etc.
I don't usually have previews created for images automatically, so I "Update Preview" for the lower rated images, then I relocate the masters, and then I can delete the Raw master. What I am left with is an unreferenced Jpeg, with a rating of 1 or 2 stars and metadata. I can drag that over to a file on my desktop, and then re-import it. At that point, I have a high quality Jpeg master, that is a small file, with metadata, but no ratings. I then need to delete the original preview file.
I guess I could search a project by 1 and 2 rated pics, move those to another project, relocate those masters, delete RAW files, drag and paste Jpeg previews to a folder on my desktop, and them import the new jpegs into the orignal project, rate the jpegs 1 or 2 stars, and then delete the other project with the now unreferenced jpegs.
Anybody have ideas on making this easier.
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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