Finder folder/file structure export

Is it possible to export the file/folder structure of a drive to a searchable database? Just to give you and idea of what I'm looking for, essentially is creating a searchable database of all the folders and files on a drive with the folder structure in tact but without any of the file sizes. Essentially just all aliases. To get a visual, picture creating a Burn Folder in Finder. If you drag a series of files/folders to it, the folder structure is in tact but they're all 44kb aliases. Even if you remove/delete the original content the alias seems to remain. This might be a last ditch solution for me, but something about it doesn't seem stable or permanent.

I hope that makes sense. I've honestly never used a database before, but I'm interested in starting as we're going through our production storage and moving all our old content to drives that we'll fill up and pull and shelve and we'd like a searchable database in case we need to find content that exists on those pulled drives.