How do I go about moving from a Macbook to a iMac with NAS when my home folder is too big to fit on the 250 GB SSD?

So I've grown out of my hard drive and am moving to an SSD. It's only 250 GB while my new NAS will be 10 TB.
Here is my old setup:
Internal HD 750 GB
546.91 GB Home Folder
30.53 GB music folder
91 GB picture folder
335.7 GB movie folder 258 GB of movies and tv shows
External HD’s
650 GB of photos
350 GB of music
New HD Setup
250GB SSD (for applications and system)
2 3TB WD Red HD's
2 2TB WD Drives
I am most worried about migrating my data. My home folder is too large to just throw on the SSD.

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