In recent years, the WSN are emerging swiftly since it finds applications in various domains including weather monitoring, attack detection, industrial monitoring, monitoring of submarine organisms, patient monitoring as well as the monitoring of ecological disorders. But WSN is also influenced by various other factors like network lifetime and energy consumption. It is necessary to provide an energy effective protocol to conquer certain troubles that includes packet delivery ratio, network lifetime, residual energy as well as effective routing in WSN. Therefore, this article aims to propose a novel protocol to enhance the energy efficiency of the network thereby providing an optimal routing path. This can be achieved by selecting an optimal cluster head that maintains communication between the base station and the sensor node. In this article, a novel multi-objective moth swarm based sailfish (MOMS-SF) technique is employed in selecting an optimal cluster head. The proposed MOMS-SF technique enhances the network lifetime and minimizes the energy consumption of the network. Finally, the evaluation results are conducted to determine the network performances of the proposed MOMS-SF approach. Also, a comparative analysis is carried out and the graphical analyzes for various parameters are made for various approaches to determine the effectiveness of the proposed system.