As far as I can tell from reading Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, Photos should support RAW. Also, check out D7500 raw files?. I got those links from this DuckDuckGo search page, so see if anything else is useful.
Jon
macOS 11.7.10, iMac Retina 5K 27-inch, late 2014, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 1 TB fusion drive, 16 GB RAM, Epson SureColor P600, Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, MS Office 365
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