store photos in icloud but not on devices

I want to store photos from previous years on icloud but only keep the newest ones on my macbook pro, iphone and ipad because my local storage is too full. I have thousands of photos in icloud and want to keep using icloud to store the oldest ones as well as the new ones I take daily but need to make room on my local devices. Is this possible? Or will I have to remove the oldest photos from icloud and store them somewhere else like dropbox? I have optimized photos on my devices but because of the volume the storage is almost maxed out on my local devices. I have a lot of paid storage available in iCloud and would prefer to keep all of my photos there.