Limited Searchable Image Gallery for Public Use

I am trying to create a searchable image gallery that would be accessable to the public, so I would like the search criteria to be limited to dates and/or class numbers. I have a television used as the display and a dedicated computer for only this function, and ideally use a number keypad or a tablet limited to number keys for input. It would contain class photos for a school, and in the non-searching time would scroll through the images in a slide-show format. Is this possible?