If the distro's installer allows the existing home partition to be selected as the new /home and *not* selecting formatting it, you should be able to do it. You should also select home's existing filesystem: Ext4, btrfs, etc.
I'd back up my existing home just in case, You might test this on a another machine if that's an option. I'd specifically want to see what happens if/when the installer wants to write a new file into /home when my existing version is already there.
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