Any way to batch redefine named swatch colors in several AI documents?

Greetings —
I have a large number of book illustrations that all include two named swatches, Light Shadow and Dark Shadow, that need to be redefined to a new CMYK formula.
I'm not looking forward to doing this by hand for all these files. Can this be done via actions or scripting?
Thanks for any help you-all can provide!

Hmmm... Well I wanted to mark both of your answers as correct, because they both work great, but it appears that the system will not allow you to do that...
I tried both methods and they work like a charm! Thanks guys! I was actually trying something similar to what Steve suggested on my own, but I was trying it with the wrong pallete.. I was trying to drag colors and stops from the gradient pallette instead of the color palette. Either method will work great depending on what I want to do, one allows me to cherry pick certain colors and the other gets me everything fast. Thanks again guys for the thorough and effective answers!

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