Splitting Site Collection and Changing the Managed Paths

Hi there,
I was hoping for some advice. We are planning the upgrade our SP 2010 to SP 2013. We have one Site Collection whose DB is nearing 180GB and growing so we are going to "split" it up into four.
So, the logical thing would be to export sites/subsites and import them into their own site collection. What I have found though is that when doing this, the workflow history is not kept - we need the workflow history so this is not an option.
My other thought was to restore the DB, move the contents to a new Content DB, delete out of there what I don't want and do that four times. That could work but then I get the problem of the URL. I'm assuming by restoring this same DB four times
it will be using the same URL?
So, if anybody knows of a tool out there that can do an export/import that will keep the workflow history that would be perfect (it would have to be free...) - or, how can I restore the DB's to new URL/Managed Paths? Or maybe you have a better
solution? Any help would be appreciated.

Rebecca, thanks for the suggestion - I just think that could get a bit messy for my users.
Alex, the Workflow Cleanup job is disabled as we need to keep a record of who approved the task items. I cannot lose the history.
What I have done, and have only just started testing, was to backup and restore in Powershell the "Root site" and delete the three subsites. Then, do the same again but this time, restore to a new URL
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/erica/archive/2013/11/26/customer-question-renaming-site-collections-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx
So, I've the done the following:-
Backup-SPSite http://domain/sites/HR –Path E:\Backup\HRBackup.bak -UseSqlSnapshot
Restore-SPSite http://sp.contoso.net/sites/HR/Subsite1 –Path E:\Backup\HRBackup.bak -ContentDatabase SPS_HRSite1
Restore-SPSite http://sp.contoso.net/sites/HR/Subsite2 –Path E:\Backup\HRBackup.bak -ContentDatabase SPS_HRSite2
Restore-SPSite http://sp.contoso.net/sites/HR/Subsite3 –Path E:\Backup\HRBackup.bak -ContentDatabase SPS_HRSite3
Obviously space could be an issue. Not a perfect solution but workflow history is kept and I've been able to split my Site Collection. My next challenge is moving the subsite into the root of that new site collection. I added a comment here if
anybody has any answers -
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/sharepoint/en-US/1dbd3d7c-ccd3-42e2-ba48-ad5731f38a58/change-subsite-to-toplevel-site-without-changing-the-link?prof=required

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