This identity also has a proof using the technique of annihilated
coefficient extractors (ACE).
First observe that it is equivalent to
$$\sum_{r=1}^n \frac{2n+1}{2r} {2n\choose 2r-1} B_{2r}
= n - \frac{1}{2}.$$
The left simplifies to
$$\sum_{r=1}^n {2n+1\choose 2r} B_{2r}.$$
Introduce the following generating function $f(z)$ for this quantity,
which is
$$f(z) = \sum_{n\ge 1} \frac{z^{2n}}{(2n+1)!}
\sum_{r=1}^n {2n+1\choose 2r} B_{2r}.$$
By the generating function of the Bernoulli numbers we have that
$f(z)$ is
$$\sum_{n\ge 1} \frac{z^{2n}}{(2n+1)!}
\sum_{r=1}^n {2n+1\choose 2r} (2r)! [w^{2r}] \frac{w}{e^w-1}.$$
Switch summations to get
$$\sum_{r\ge 1}
\left( [w^{2r}] \frac{w}{e^w-1} \right)
\sum_{n\ge r} \frac{z^{2n}}{(2n+1-2r)!}$$
which is
$$\sum_{r\ge 1}
\left( [w^{2r}] \frac{w}{e^w-1} \right)
\sum_{n\ge 0} \frac{z^{2n+2r}}{(2n+1)!}.$$
This in turn simplifies to
$$\sum_{r\ge 1}
z^{2r} \left( [w^{2r}] \frac{w}{e^w-1} \right)
\sum_{n\ge 0} \frac{z^{2n}}{(2n+1)!}.$$
The first term is the promised annihilated coefficient extractor and
the second is $\sinh(z)/z$ so we get
$$f(z) = \left(-1 + \frac{1}{2} z + \frac{z}{e^z-1}\right)
\frac{\sinh(z)}{z}.$$
We extract coefficients from the three components. First,
$$(2n+1)! [z^{2n}] \left(-\frac{\sinh(z)}{z}\right)
= -(2n+1)! [z^{2n+1}] \sinh(z) = -1.$$
Second,
$$(2n+1)! [z^{2n}] \left(\frac{1}{2} z \frac{\sinh(z)}{z}\right)
= (2n+1)! [z^{2n}] \frac{1}{2} \sinh(z) = 0.$$
And third,
$$(2n+1)! [z^{2n}] \frac{\sinh(z)}{e^z-1}
= (2n+1)! [z^{2n}] \frac{1}{2}\frac{e^z-e^{-z}}{e^z-1}.$$
This last one needs some rewriting as in
$$\frac{e^z-e^{-z}}{e^z-1}
= 1 + \frac{-e^z + 1 + e^z - e^{-z}}{e^z-1}
\\= 1 + \frac{1 - e^{-z}}{e^z-1}
= 1 + e^{-z} \frac{e^z - 1}{e^z-1} = 1 + e^{-z}.$$
Therefore the third component is
$$(2n+1)! [z^{2n}] \frac{1}{2} (1 + e^{-z})
\\ = (2n+1)! \times \frac{1}{2} \times \frac{(-1)^{2n}}{(2n)!}
= (2n+1)\times \frac{1}{2} = n + \frac{1}{2}.$$
The sum of the three contributions is
$$n + \frac{1}{2} + (0) + (-1)
= n - \frac{1}{2}$$
precisely as was to be shown.
There is another annihilated coefficient extractor at this
MSE link I and yet another one at this MSE link II.