Might be a good time to stick a ladder down in your cistern, get a scrub brush, a bucket of water with plenty of bleach, and clean up the cistern. Hose it down and maybe use a pressure washer if needed. Probably a layer of sludge in the bottom to scoop out with a shovel first. Probably have to clear out the spider webs and a snake around the top. On the other hand, if your sulfur smell is connected with H2S (hydrogen sulfide) gas, then care should be taken and clean it from the top with a pressure washer. H2S is an oderless gas that is heavier than air and settles into low areas around well heads and oil tanks and tanks like your cistern. When you climb into a tank with h2s, you immediately lose consciousness for a lack of oxygen. An incident usually kills multiple people because no one realizes it is h2s gas, they look into a tank and see someone unconscious, they go into the tank to help, and are immediately overcome themselves. I've cleaned a cistern before but the same safety rules apply as a grain bin, use safety ropes, have someone with the horsepower to pull you out, maybe have some type of breathing appratus available, and be ready to call for help which would probably get there too late. There is a way to test for h2s gas though. Probably wouldn't hurt to run your air compressor hose to the bottom and displace the air for an hour or two first.
Beware of using the health dept to save a few bucks on a test. They have the authority to shut you down, make you plug your well, and remove your cistern if they find some code violations(very expensive). They could determine your house is unlivable without the water. There are water testing labs around.
Besides the bleach in the well as others have suggested, put plenty of bleach in your cistern for a while. Whenever cities have a pipe problem, they will add chlorine to clear up any contamination.
You may want to add a whole house filter system also with a charcoal filter to get rid of the sulfur smell.
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