Swapping RAW Masters to JPEGs

I couldn't find another thread covering this--please point me to one if it's been discussed...
I am shooting RAW with a Canon 5d Mk II, so my image files are ~24MB. During my Aperture workflow, I'll end up with stack selections and a couple 4-5 star images within most stacks, as well as a number of lesser pictures that I still want to keep.
I want to keep my stack picks and high-star photo masters in RAW format for maximum flexibility. However, for the tail of lesser photos that I don't anticipate a lot of further postprocessing on, I would love to have a way to "swap" or "down-convert" the masters to JPEGs, keeping all their metadata, keywords, stack membership, etc. intact. This would enable me to keep them at a size of ~3MB each and would result in a lot of space savings (almost 90% savings). I could obviously export and re-import, but none of the metadata or organization would be intact.
I am looking for a plugin or manual/batch method for doing this. Ideally, I would filter a project for a list of photos below a certain star rating and which are not stack picks and batch downgrade masters to JPEGs. If any adjustments were "baked into" the new JPEG masters, that would be no problem.
I don't believe that shooting RAW + JPEG helps me here at all. Historically, I've shot raw-only, and I could switch going forward if someone had a great solution based on this.
Any ideas? Thanks for your help!
Mark

I am sorry I can't help here, but I completely agree with you. My camera has the capability to do this on camera (Olympus 420, so its a low-end Camera), where I can choose to delete the RAW, the JPEG, or both. The only problem is that while Shooting RAW + JPEG is pretty nice, the screen is too small to tell if the picture will come okay without spending serious time zooming into the picture and checking it out. Storing a RAW file (mine are only 11MB) of a mediocre picture is a huge waste. How hard would it be to include a rIght mouse click to: Delete RAW, Delete JPEG, or Delete Both?
I understand that because all edits are non-destructive, deleting the master will in turn delete all edits, but throw the "+are you sure+" warning message and let the chips fall where they may. Someone will learn pretty quick after making that mistake once.
Is it me? or is what I am asking here just crazy talk?

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