You could try something like this if you are checking the content in the main loop.
$content = get_the_content();
preg_match_all('/(<img .*?>)/', $content, $img_tags);
if (!empty($img_tags)) {
// Post content contains images, do something!
}
// Check for links and do something if you have matches
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