Get better mods, I bet you have a ton of awful ones with low or no speed or mismatched sets, like defence mods with crit damage or offense or crit damage with defence primaries. Keep improving your mods, slice, splice and 6-dot them, don't just grow the hoard. Quality over quantity. Most characters can be permanently modded and left to do the job, replace bad mods with good mods and then even better mods as you acquire them.
You have a hoarding problem. 500 unassigned mods is just dumb. Put them on your characters. That's what they're there for.