Not sure if I understand your problem.

A1 contains data, B1 contains an image
A2 contains data, B2 contains an image

You want to sort the whole lot by column A

Select the entire lines 1 and 2 by clicking on the line headers and
then sort. That will keep the data in A1 and B1 together. Alternatively
select A1 to B2 and then sort by column A.

Is that what you meant?

Hans