Action to Straighten RAW Images

I photograph groups of dancers during their recitals a couple times a year and end up with around 5-6,000 photos by the time I'm all finished.  They are all stage photos so cropping one only takes about 4 or 5 seconds, but there are a ton of them and it's incredibly boring.  Is it possible for Photoshop to detect and auto-straighten photographs?  Maybe using an action?  It'd be nice to do them all at once.  They aren't all off to the same degree (some are perfect) but the "slants" appear to be very easy to detect.
Thanks in advance

I’m afraid the best you can achieve short term is semi-automating the task.
For example  by including a stop in an Action and using the Ruler Tool and its »Straighten« function (the button in the Options Bar), then continuing the Action.
That would allow to set the Ruler manually and you could assign a shortcut to the Play-button in the Actions Panel (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts Setting) to continue the Action.
Another option might be to run trough all the images once and manually add a two-point-Path (of a certain name for example) to those that need rotating and then run a Script on the whole bunch that uses that information to rotate and trim.
Maybe someone else has a better idea, though.

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