If you use excel and aren’t using Google Sheets you should probably check out Sheets. Excel is much better for large files, but the sheets killer feature is the ability to display an image in one cell based on a url to the image in another cell. Put the link to the image in A1. Then in another cell type =image(A1)
You now have a sortable spreadsheet that displays images. Excel doesn’t dynamically populate images, so if you sort a spreadsheet with images the images don’t move. Googles Sheets FTW.