Hello and welcome to the Community @Sonja_Owens!
We currently do not support concatenating linked records together into a single field without that record losing its ability to link to other tables(the record name which just be text as you pointed out).
I do recommend playing around with creating views to selectively hide and view certain linked records fields in certain views to draw attention to the most important records for your different workflows. I recommend also taking a look at our guide on combining multiple tables to see if maybe some linked records on your table could be represented with single or multi select fields.
Let me know if I can help provide any more information, and if this helped answer your question please mark it as the solution :white_check_mark: .