(This comment is just my personal views, and isn’t necessarily a prediction that you’re super likely to get funding, but I do at least feel pretty confident the time cost of you applying is worthwhile in expectation, given how low the time cost should be and how useful this project might be.)
Fwiw, I think you should probably indeed apply for funding to do this! Here are two posts I wrote that might be helpful for that:
Things I often tell people about applying to EA Funds
List of EA funding opportunities
(This comment is just my personal views, and isn’t necessarily a prediction that you’re super likely to get funding, but I do at least feel pretty confident the time cost of you applying is worthwhile in expectation, given how low the time cost should be and how useful this project might be.)