How to best downsize my portfolio catalog?

I've got 130,000 RAW images in my personal and professional portfolio, now spreading onto more than one 3TB drive and becoming a hassle to work with and back up.
As I continue to make new and further purge my old collection, I wonder if I can export all of them to create a smart preview portfolio with the intention of realigning it with my original one later. Are there other suggestions you may have that would allow me immediate access to my portfolio when I feel like spending a few minutes downsizing and improving it?
While I'll take workflow suggestions, I'm not ready to discard my RAW images, as about 50,000 images are keepers, but not color/exposure corrected to my new standard of quality.
Many thanks!
-Luke

Anyone else difference between massive "normal" catalogs vs. the same images in smart preview catalogs?
Doesn't smart previews make your disk space and hardware situations worse?
I keep trying to point out, there is no issue with a massive "normal" catalog in Lightroom, although you keep implying that there is an issue, and I can't see your point of view.
With regards to JimHess's statement "If you feel that you must utilize multiple catalogs, I would suggest doing something very broad such as by the year", I don't see which problem in this thread is improved by using catalogs by year. Certainly the disk space and backup problems are not improved by multiple catalogs.
In my experience of 192.6 years of reading Lightroom forums, sometimes people just really want smaller catalogs for some reason that I don't understand, and they attempt to justify the smaller catalogs using some technical reason (that I and others think is invalid) such as large catalogs are slow; or disk space/backup issues, or whatever. So let me be very clear ... if you really want a smaller catalog, then go ahead and create smaller catalogs, instead of trying to find technical reasons to do so. I think smaller catalogs and multiple catalogs is the wrong direction to go in for a variety of reasons, but it is your choice, these are your photos and your business, and you don't have to justify using smaller catalogs to me or anyone else. If it makes you happy ... then be happy.

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