How can you preserve URLs when moving posts to a custom post type?

You can’t. Permalink rewrite rules are a set of patterns that the URI is matched against. If they all share the same pattern, one will always take precedence, so you will only have a single post type that will not 404. Categories (or some other taxonomy) is the way to differentiate content that shares the same URL structure.

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