GTA Online account transfer?

Hi, having some trouble and was hoping someone could help. I've been playing GTA 5 online off and on since the PS3 days. I bought it again for the PS4 and replayed the entire game and continued playing online. I just installed it today on my PS5. I have no previous story mode game save data on my PS5. I didn't want to play story mode though, I just wanted to hop on my online account and show my kid all my properties and cars. When I log into online now though it starts me all over as far as I can tell in a nightclub. I had to go around and pick up night club staff before I could free roam. My character looks different, I appear to be level 1, I have about $800,000 in the bank and no properties or cars. I'm not even sure the properties I used to own are still available properties. I drove to one of them and there was nothing suggesting it was available to purchase and I couldn't enter. Any advice or ideas would be much appreciated! Thanks!