I need help connecting "tagged" portfolios to dynamic pages

Not sure of the details. Have you considered making the various Gallery types as items in their own database, then cross referencing using the MULTI-REFERENCE within the database that has all the individual images. Then create pages and add the Gallery type dataset to the pages, add a Gallery or a repeater that feeds it with images assigned with the multi-reference.

The latter part is what I am not sure will work because of the set up.