Image traffic is a side benefit of placing images in your posts, not the main reason why people use images. Therefore, you shouldn't be considering removing your images just because you don't get much traffic coming from image searches.
Images make your posts look attractive and comprehensible and putting images in your posts is one of the aspects of on-page optimization you can't ignore.
Leave the images where they are. Even without seeing your website, I'm sure there is more than enough space for ads on there.