Is there a way to access a set of files on the client's machine?

I would like to be able to display images in game, but its roughly 15,000 images and I don't think upping my resource by 1gb is a good idea.

Is it possible that, if a player stores files in their save directory or something like that, to access the files in-game?

something like a "./images/001/Image001-001.jpg" or something along those lines?