How can I turn a $500 Amazon gift card into a bank deposit?

So my uncle just gifted me a huge Amazon gift card, but...as strange as this sounds, I would much rather use this to pay off my student loans somehow.

I know I could just deposit it into my Amazon account, and then every time I spend money on things I need from there, transfer what I would have spent to my loan payments, but I was just wondering if there was an easier way to do this.

Because I'm putting all of my extra cash to my loans right now, I'm actually not making any frivolous purchases right now, so it would take me quite some time to spend that much on Amazon.

You guys are pros when it comes to getting rid of gift cards. Any suggestions?

edit: I'm in the US.

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