Solution
You could create an eloquent model that represents the csv data, covert the collection to an array and create a new instance of the model using the array data.
That's actually very close to what I did after playing around. I just looped through the array and matched the keys with the table objects, and it seems to work well enough. Hopefully I won't have any memory issues, but that's for another topic.
Thank you very much for your input KevinCreel.
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