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Convert post meta to custom taxonomy?

You will need to write some code for this I think.
Start creating the new taxonomies and the query the right custom field to get the list of values.
Use wp_insert_term() to add the new term.
Then use wp_set_post_terms() to assign the terms to each post.

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