IPhoto crawls with large library

I am running a Macbook Pro from early 2011, OS X 10.9.5 with 2.7 GHz Core i& process, 4 GB of Ram with 500 GB HD and 160 GB available.  The iPhoto Library alone is 167 GB and iPhoto crawls each time we use it.  We take a lot of photos and video and this file will only get larger over time. 
Is there a solution that would allow iPhoto to operate faster besides upgrading to a new computer?
Thank you.

iPhoto is the slowest app.  The computer is somewhat sluggish, but I am not sure what to expect for a machine from 2011.  Thank you for the heads up on EtreCheck.  Here is the report below.
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    tabla369:
    Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Once a library is upgraded to V6 it will to be usable by any previous version of iPhoto. So if you want to have the library on both computers you'll have to copy the V4 to the G4 library and convert it to V6 and run it as V6 and keep the iBook's library at V4. You might be able to connect the two computers together and try to share one library with the other (see iPhoto's preferences). I don't know if both libraries need to be the same version for that type of sharing as I've never done it.
    Do you Twango?

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