Transform linear-phase FIR to minimum-phase FIR
The procedure you're looking for is called lifting and, as far as I know, it was first introduced by Hermann and Schuessler:


  O. Herrmann and H. W. Schuessler, Design of nonrecursive filters with minimum phase, Electron. Lett., 6(11): 329–330, 28th May 1970


The procedure is very well explained in this presentation by Ivan Selesnick. I'll briefly summarize it here, but it's important to look at the figures in the presentation.

Since you have a zero-phase filter, you know that $H(e^{j\omega})$ is real-valued. If you know the maximum error in the stopband $\delta_s$, you can define a new real-valued and non-negative transfer function by adding $\delta_s$ to $H(e^{j\omega})$:

$$H_2(\omega)=H(e^{j\omega})+\delta_s\ge 0\tag{1}$$

In the time domain this simply means adding $\delta_s$ to the central tap $h[0]$. In this way, all zeros on the unit circle become double zeros (look at the corresponding figure in the presentation quoted above). Now you only keep the zeros of $H_2(z)$ that are inside the unit circle, and one of each of the double zeros on the unit circle. In this way you reduce the filter order by a factor of $2$. Now you just need to scale the filter such that its passband amplitude oscillates around $1$. It is a straightforward exercise to derive the actual ripple values of the minimum phase filter given the ripple of the linear phase filter. Again, reading the presentation will help.