Hi Jeff,
Yes, there is, using views. I ran into the same problem as you a couple weeks back - I realized that the pathauto module's index alias function had been deprecated, and needed a way to create pages for my parent category terms. (ie. my breadcrumb would say home -> term1 -> page name, but the link to term1 went nowhere).
So this is what I did. I created a "page" view with the URL being the same name as the term URL (or, in your case, the content type URL), and gave it a title (optional). Next, I clicked on filters, and added a Taxonomy: Term filter, and filtered by the term's ID. In your case, you would filter on Node: Type, and select "Is One Of" followed by your content type.