Cut lines and die lines in Ai

Hi Everyone,

We run a business in which we print customer photos and we want to start using a router to cut them from large foam boards on which the photos are applied. It seems the best way to do this may be to create an Ai file that has the shapes of our photos laid out as paths on an art board. Here's where the challenge comes in: We're trying to achieve a workflow like this:

Receive customer photos as tiffs -> drag tiff files onto Ai art board (this board corresponds to the size of the foamboard the photos are applied to.) -> create paths around photos -> save paths so that the information can be sent to the router -> send art board with actual photos to our printer -> in theory the prints should correspond with the paths created on the art board and can be matched with the appropriate file and cut using the router.

We will of course be using registration marks as part of this process. We just need this to be something that can be done quickly and and streamlined for ease of employee use. That could potentially mean writing a script/action, and we see that as a possible solution. Thanks for the feedback everyone