Measuring small changes in high AC voltage

Do you want to measure the peak voltage or the RMS voltage?

If you want to measure the RMS voltage, then I can't think of any better alternative than to use a voltage divider and a higher resolution ADC. If you want to measure the peak voltage, then you can use a voltage divider, feed the signal into an op-amp peak rectifier circuit, and add a DC bias to the op-amp to improve the resolution.