Huge array of variable length strings

[mdijkens]

For a project I need to store an array of variable length strings.
Let's say

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Dim Shared as String s(100000)

But the issue is that the string lengths could vary from several bytes up to 2 GB

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For i% = 1 To 100

  s(i%) = String$(100000000, 42) ' 100MB

Next i%

As soon as the arrays total size is above a couple of GB it aborts the program...

I'd like to find a way to make max use of internal memory (>=32GB) 
What would be the best approach to define this?
I think _Mem is not very suitable for variable length strings

I could do one big _Mem and keep track of indexes/blocks but that's complicating the code quite a bit
Any better suggestions?