Applescript: color file name in finder

Hi Community,
I'm working on a huge data management program and i want to be able to tag certain files with incorrectly inputed data so i can easily go back to them later. Rather than moving them all to a certain place, I was wondering if, with applescript, there's a way to color their labels. Hopefully without clicking. Thanks.

It's trivial to set the label of a file:
set theFile to (choose file) -- or however you're identifying your file
tell application "Finder"
set label index of file theFile to 3
end tell
where 'label index' is the index to the labels on your machine.
The issue is how to identify which files to change.

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