This really has nothing to do with WordPress itself; WordPress is fully scalable with appropriate hardware.
“the media selector freezes.” Do you mean the whole browser window? Or the popup media library window?
The issue is going to be 1) the host server not having enough memory or bandwidth or CPU to display the page and number of images, or 2) the end user browser freezing from lack of memory.
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