Linux script or tool to create consolidate filetypes?

Easy concept, but difficult to explain.

My OMV box has large directory structures of several workstation backups (\Backups\). I'd like to create a separate flat directory structure of different file types (images, music, etc.) that are softlinks to the files contained within the \Backups\ directory structure, like this.

The idea is, for example, I have a single, flat directory I can browse to to see all my pictures.

My question is if there is some Linux utility (or Windows I suppose) that can do this, or do I have to build some script that would do this on some scheduled basis? If I have to build a script, does anyone have something that will do this, or give me a good starting point?

ah, that looks like a great start! Thank you!

so here's the result:

ln -s Backups/CloudStorage/Dropbox/_Private/Photos/Events/2015-08-28 Badass Dash/Feared Floats/2015-08-29 09.51 Badass Dash_3542.jpg ./Filetypes/ImagesBackups/CloudStorage/Dropbox/_Private/Photos/Events/2015-08-28 Badass Dash/Feared Floats/2015-08-29 09.51 Badass Dash_3542.jpg

but I want to "collapse" all the filetypes into a single directory, and filenames have spaces in them, so I would need a result like this:

ln -s Backups/CloudStorage/Dropbox/_Private/Photos/Events/2015-08-28\ Badass\ Dash/Feared\ Floats/2015-08-29\ 09.51\ Badass\ Dash_3542.jpg ./Filetypes/Images/2015-08-29\ 09.51\ Badass\ Dash_3542.jpg

Is there another/better way to reference a file other than escaping the spaces? like I what I would do in windows?:
"2015-08-29 09.51 Badass Dash_3542.jpg"

I was following the syntax up until the curly brackets.

Since I'm collapsing all the files into a single directory, what happens when there is a duplicate filename?